Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering

Section I: Eminent Scientists of the Past.- 1 Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics, by Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrásio Oliveira.- 2 Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis and his Handbook of Machine Designs, by Marco Ceccarelli.- 3 Tribute to Reuleaux, Roberto Bragastini.- 4 Elia Ovazza, Professor of TMM in Palermo around the End of the 19th Century, by Marco Ceccarelli, Francesco Sorge, Giuseppe Genchi.- 5 Academician K.V. Frolov at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, by Olga Egorova, Gennady Timofeev.- Section II: History of Industrial Installations.- 6 Historical Watermills: Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage, by Mario Centofanti, Stefano Brusaporci, Vittorio Lucchese.- 7 The Mill at the Lagoon of Orbetello. Mechanisms and Hydraulic Energy, by Emanuela Chiavoni.- 8 The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily, by Vincenzo Ferrara.- 9 The History of Aircraft Manufacturing at the Braşov IAR Plant, by Horia Salcă, Dan Săvescu.- 10 Science, Technology and Industry in Southern Italy Before the Unification, by Cesare Rossi, Marco Ceccarelli.- 11 Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in North Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century, by Yibing Fang, Marco Ceccarelli.- Section III: History of Machinery and Transport.- 12 The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More than a Century of History of Technology, by Riccardo Monastero, Giuseppe Genchi.- 13 History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid – Almorox, by Daniel Fernández Caballero, Víctor Rodríguez de la Cruz, Julián Martín Jarillo, Manuel Esperón Mínguez.- 14 Airship – The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851, Pier Gabriele Molari.-  Section IV: Human Inventiveness for Mechanical and Scientific Devices.- 15 Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books “De Cochlea” by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria] – Venice – 1615: the Engineering and the Language, by Elena Magnini, Pier Gabriele Molari.- 16 On the Birth and Growth ofPendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era, by Francesco Sorge, Marco Cammalleri, Giuseppe Genchi.- 17 Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of De Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, by Michela Cigola, Marco Ceccarelli.- 18 Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind through the Fall of Water, by Umberto Meneghetti.- 19 Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models, by Augusto Ajovalasit, Vincenzo Nigrelli, Giuseppe Pitarresi, Gabriele Virzì Mariotti.- Section V: Robots and Human-Driven Automata.- 20 The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC, by Teun Koetsier, Hanfried Kerle.- 21 Hindu Temple Carts – Rathams­, by Jammi Srinivasa Rao, Babaji Raja Bhonsle, Bigil Kumar.- 22 Robots: An Evolving Species, by Alberto Rovetta, Vincenzo Iannone.