Electronic Resource

Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations

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Penilaian

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This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books.
The historical, cultural and technical backgrounds of the mechanisms are explained, and various mechanisms described and illustrated in ancient books are introduced. By utilizing the idea for the conceptual design of modern mechanisms, all feasible designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain members and joints that meet the technical standards of the subjects’ time periods are synthesized systematically. Ancient Chinese crossbows (the original crossbow and repeating crossbows), textile mechanisms (silk-reeling mechanism, spinning mechanisms, and looms), and many other artisan's tool mechanisms are used as illustrated examples. Such an approach provides a logical method for the reconstruction designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain structures. It also provides an innovative direction for researchers to further identify the original structures of mechanisms and machines with drawings in ancient literature.
This book can be used as a textbook and/or supplemental reading material for courses related to history of ancient (Chinese) machinery and creative mechanism design for senior and graduate students.

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Availability

Inventory Code	Barcode	Call Number	Location	Status
1408000713	EB0003376	604.209 Hsi m	Central Library (Database Springer E-Book)	Available

Detail Information

Series Title

History of Mechanism and Machine Science

Call Number

604.209 Hsi m

Publisher

Switzerland : Springer Cham., 2013

Collation

xiv, 302p.: Ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-02009-9

Classification

604.209

Content Type

Ebook

Media Type

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Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

1

Subject(s)

China
Mechanical movements

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