Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
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Watt's separate condenser changed the steam engine, and he created a new family of linkages, largely by empirical methods. Eugene S. Ferguson, once a curator of mechanical and civil engineering at the Smithsonian's National Museum and later a professor at Iowa State, traces how kinematic analysis and synthesis developed in universities and in the workshop. Sections cover Watt, the search for a way to draw a straight line, scholars and machines, mechanicians and mechanisms, and mechanisms in America from 1875 to 1955. His conclusion is that intuition built on knowledge of the past is still needed to design successful mechanisms. It is Paper 27 in the Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology.
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- Author
- Eugene S. Ferguson
- Reading time
- About 90 minutes
- Pages
- 85
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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