A brief illustrated history of machines and mechanisms
[Book]
/ Emilio Bautista Paz ... [et al.]
Dordrecht ;New York
: Springer,
, c2010.
xvi, 217 p. , ill. , 24 cm.
(History of mechanism and machine science
; v. 10)
"Revised and updated translation of the original Spanish work, "Breve historia ilustrada de las maquinas" ETSII, Madrid, Spain, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Print
Includes bibliographical references.
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.