A brief illustrated history of machines and mechanisms
By: Emilio Bautista Paz ... [et al.].
Series: History of mechanism and machine science -- v. 10; History of mechanism and machine science -- v. 10.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9789048125111; 9789048125128
Subjects: History; Mechanical movements; Machinery; Mechanical engineering; Mechanization
Work titles: Breve historia ilustrada de las máquinas. English
Notes: "Revised and updated translation of the original Spanish work, "Breve historia ilustrada de las maquinas" ETSII, Madrid, Spain, 2007"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Anonymous developments; title: Chinese inventions and machines; title: Mechanical engineering in antiquity; title: Medieval machines and mechanisms; title: The machine renaissance; title: Machines in the first colonial empires; title: Machinery during the industrial revolution; title: A vision on machines.