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International Symposium on History of Machines
and Mechanisms
Hong-Sen Yan
·
Marco Ceccarelli
Editors
International Symposium
on History of Machines
and Mechanisms
Proceedings of HMM 2008
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Editors
Hong-Sen Yan
Nat. Cheng Kung University
Dept. Mechanical Engineering
Tainan 701
Taiwan R.O.C.
hsyan@mail.nsku.edu.tw
Marco Ceccarelli
Universit` Cassino
a
Dipto. Meccanica, Strutture,
Ambiente e Territorio
Via G. di Biasio, 43
03043 Cassino
Italy
ceccarelli@unicas.it
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9484-2
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9485-9
e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-9485-9
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939067
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Preface
The International Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms is the
main activity of the Permanent Commission (PC) for the History of Mechanism
and Machine Science (HMM) of the International Federation for the Promotion of
Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM). The first symposium, HMM2000,
was initiated by Dr. Marco Ceccarelli and was held at the University of Cassino
(Cassino, Italy) on May 11–13, 2000. The second symposium, HMM2004, was
chaired by Dr. Marco Ceccarelli and held at the same venue on May 12–15, 2004.
The third symposium, HMM2008, was chaired by Dr. Hong-Sen Yan and held at
the National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) on November 11–14, 2008.
The mission of IFToMM is to promote research and development in the field
of machines and mechanisms by theoretical and experimental methods, along with
their practical applications. The aim of HMM2008 is to establish an international
forum for presenting and discussing historical developments in the field of
Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). The subject area covers all aspects of
the development of HMM, such as machine, mechanism, kinematics, design
method, etc., that are related to people, events, objects, anything that assisted in
the development of the HMM, and presented in the forms of reasoning and argu-
ments, demonstration and identification, and description and evaluation.
The HMM2008 Proceedings contain 26 papers by authors from all over the
world. The topics include historical development on mechanism and machine the-
ory, historical figures and their works, history of mechanical engineering, ancient
machines and mechanisms, reconstruction design of ancient devices, mechanism
and machine design, and engineering education. This book is of interest to re-
searchers, graduate students and engineers specializing or promoting the history of
science and technology, in particular on mechanism and machine science. It is be-
lieved that the book would provide the readers with extensive background infor-
mation on the origin and the history of the invention of fundamental machines and
mechanisms, and will undoubtedly provide further understanding and motivation
for their own research and/or consultancy work.
The figure on the cover was provided by Dr. Tsung-Yi Lin. It shows a pictorial
view of the water-powered armillary sphere and celestial globe invented by Su
Song (蘇頌) of the Northern Song Dynasty in ancient China around 1088 AD.
This was a water-powered mechanical clock with an escapement regulator. On the
top was a massive spherical astronomical instrument for observing the stars. Inside
the tower was a celestial globe, whose movements were synchronized with those
of the sphere above. At the front of the tower was a pagoda-like structure of five
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