This is the second volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a frame that can in effect be a dictionary of personalities in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This is a new and refreshing approach to the subject matter.
This is the second volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect c- tributed papers within a framework that can serve as a collection of persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This is a continuation of the first volume that was published in 2008, again combining very ancient and very recent scholars in order to give not only an encyclopaedic character to this project but also to emphasize the significance of MMS over time. This project has the characteristic that the papers illustrate, by recognizing p- sons and their scientific work, mainly technical developments in the historical evolution of the fields that today are grouped in MMS. Thus, emphasis is also given to biographical notes describing efforts and experiences of people who have c- tributed to the technical achievements whose technical survey is the core of each contributed paper. This second volume of the project has been possible thanks to the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared in this initiative and who have spent time and effort in preparing the papers. The stand-alone papers cover the wide field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS. I believe that readers will take advantage of the papers in this book and future ones by supplying further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not).
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AL-JAZARI (1136 1206). - Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevski (1905 1977). - Ludwig Burmester (1840 1927). - Henry George (Harry) Ferguson (1884 1960). - Juanelo (1501 1585). - José María Lanz y Zaldívar (1764 1839). - Nicolae Manolescu (1907 1993). - Francesco Masi (1852 1944). - Adam Morecki (1929 2001). - Feodor Orlov 1843 1892. - Todor Panteli? (1923 1999). - Ferdinand Jakob Redtenbacher (1809 1863). - Wang Zheng (1571 1644).
