Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface by the Series Editor; Preface; Archimedes (287-212 BC), by Thomas G. Chondros; Agustin de Betancourt y Molina (1758-1824), by Juan Ignacio Cuadrado Iglesias; Oene Bottema (1901-1992), by Teun Koetsier; William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) , by Joe Rooney; Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), by Teresa Zielinska; Alexander Yershov (1818-1867), by Alexander Golovin and Dina Mkrtychyan; Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926-2006), by Bernard Roth; Kurt Ham (1908-1995), by Hanfried Kerle; Heron of Alexandria (c. 10-85 AD), by Evangelos Papadopoulos; Willibald Lichtenheldt (1 901-1 980), by Kurt Luck; Xian-Zhou Liu (1890-1975), by Hong-Sen Yan, Hsin-Te Wang, Chun-Wei Chen and Kuo-Hung Hsiao; Giulio Mozzi (1730-1813), by Marco Ceccarelli; Theodore Olivier (1793-1 853), by J.M. Herve; Ufimtsev Anatoly Georgievich (1 880-1936), by Sergey Jatsun; James Watt (1736-1819), by Gordon R. Pennock; Walter Wunderlich (1910-1998), by Manfred Husty