Anonymous Developments.- Chinese Inventions and Machines.- Mechanical Engineering in Antiquity.- Medieval Machines and Mechanisms.- The Machine Renaissance.- Machines in the First Colonial Empires.- Machinery During the Industrial Revolution.- A Vision on Machines.
From the reviews: "This work by mechanical engineers Bautista Paz ... and colleagues provides a very short historical overview of machines. ... It covers much mechanical engineering history, and if one wants to get an idea of the breadth and depth of the field, then this volume will do the job. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates." (A. M. Strauss, Choice, Vol. 48 (3), November, 2010)
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