This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science and also
contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University
of Palermo Italy which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150
years.The various sections deal with some eminent scientists of the past with the history of
industrial installations machinery and transport with the human inventiveness for mechanical
and scientific devices and with robots and human-driven automata. All chapters have been
written by experts in their fields.The volume shows a wide-ranging panorama on the historical
progress of scientific and technical knowledge in the past centuries. It will stimulate new
research and ideas for those involved in the history of Science and Technology.
