Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural
development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of
machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to
human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant
milestones in the progress of knowledge by a complementary persp-
tive into a general historical overview. This book is the result of
common efforts and interests by several scholars, teachers, and
students on subjects that are connected with the theory of machines
and mechanisms. In fact, in this book there is a certain teaching
aim in addition to a general historical view that is more addressed
to the achievements by "homo faber" than to those by "homo
sapiens," since the proposed history survey has been developed with
an engineering approach. The brevity of the text added to the fact
that the authors are probably not com- tent to tackle historical
studies with the necessary rigor, means the content of the book is
inevitably incomplete, but it nevertheless attempts to fulfil three
basic aims: First, it is hoped that this book may provide a
stimulus to promote interest in the study of technical history
within a mechanical engineering context. Few are the co- tries
where anything significant is done in this area, which means there
is a general lack of knowledge of this common cultural heritage.
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