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Various and Ingenious Machines (2 vols.) : Volume One: Power Generation and Transport / Volume Two: Manufacturing and Weapons Technology / Bryan Lawton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawton, Bryan, author.
- Series:
- Technology and Change in History ; 6.
- Technology and Change in History ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mechanical engineering--History.
- Mechanical engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Volume One: Power Generation and Transport / Volume Two: Manufacturing and Weapons Technology
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2004.
- Summary:
- This two-volume work describes the early history of mechanical engineering from prehistory, when mining and agriculture first appear, to the beginnings of industrialisation. The old definition that if it moves it's mechanical is used and consequently the books are divided into four major sections: power generation and transport in the first volume; manufacturing technology and weapons technology in the second volume. Background chapters to each section broadens the text and depth is added by analytical appendices describing the principles of operation, optimum operating conditions, and the limits of performance of historically important machinery; all presented in easily understood graphical format. The text is profusely illustrated by over 800 figures and should be of value to historians, industrial archaeologists, and engineers.
- Contents:
- Volume 1
- Mechanics
- Chapter 1 Machine Elements
- Chapter 2 Power Transmission
- Power generation
- Chapter 3 Power, Food, and Slavery
- Chapter 4 Muscular Work and Power
- Chapter 5 Muscle technology
- Chapter 6 Waterpower
- Chapter 7 Wind and Other Sources of Power
- Transport
- Chapter 8 Characteristics of Transport
- Chapter 9 Land Transport - Prehistory and the Ancient Civilisations - Persia, Greece and Rome - Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern
- Chapter 10 Land Transport technology
- Chapter 11 Water Transport
- Chapter 12 Ship Technology
- Chapter 13 Undersea and Aerial Transport
- Volume 2
- Manufacture
- Chapter 14 Attitudes to Manufacture
- Chapter 15 Agriculture - Introduction
- Chapter 16 Ancient and Medieval Mining
- Chapter 17 Renaissance and Early Modern Mining
- Chapter 18 Ancient and Medieval Metalworking
- Chapter 19 Renaissance and Early Modern Metalworking
- Chapter 20 Textile Manufacture
- Chapter 21 Warfare
- Chapter 22 Ancient and Classical Weapons
- Chapter 23 Medieval and Early Modern Weapons
- Chapter 24 Weapons Technology.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 90-474-1359-8
- OCLC:
- 649980601
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047413592 DOI
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