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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254169503321

Autore

Dixit Uday Shanker

Titolo

A Brief History of Mechanical Engineering / / by Uday Shanker Dixit, Manjuri Hazarika, J. Paulo Davim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-42916-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 178 p. 22 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

Collana

Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology, , 2195-0911

Disciplina

621

Soggetti

Mechanical engineering

History

Technology

Engineering—Vocational guidance

Mechanical Engineering

History of Science

Popular Science in Technology

Job Careers in Science and Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is Mechanical Engineering -- Landmark Revolutionary Inventions in Mechanical Engineering -- History of Mechanics -- History of Thermodynamics -- Manufacturing -- Emergence of Production and Industrial Engineering -- History of Mechatronics -- Future of Mechanical Engineering.

Sommario/riassunto

What is mechanical engineering? What a mechanical engineering does? How did the mechanical engineering change through ages? What is the future of mechanical engineering? This book answers these questions in a lucid manner. It also provides a brief chronological history of landmark events and answers questions such as: When was steam engine invented? Where was first CNC machine developed? When did the era of additive manufacturing start? When did the marriage of mechanical and electronics give birth to discipline of mechatronics? This book informs and create interest on mechanical engineering in the general public and particular in students. It also helps to sensitize the



engineering fraternity about the historical aspects of engineering. At the same time, it provides a common sense knowledge of mechanical engineering in a handy manner.