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Reuleaux models at St. Petersburg State University.
- Source :
- AIP Conference Proceedings; 2018, Vol. 1959 Issue 1, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Franz Reuleaux (1829 - 1905) is a famous mechanical engineer, a Professor of the Berlin Royal Technical Academy. He became widely known as an engineer-scientist, a Professor and industrial consultant, education reformer and leader of the technical elite of Germany. He directed the design and manufacture of over 300 models of simple mechanisms. They were sold to many famous universities for pedagogical and scientific purposes. Today, the most complete set is at Cornell University, College of Engineering. In this article we discuss the history, the modern state and our using the Reuleaux models that survived at St. Petersburg State University for educational purposes. We present description of certain models and our electronic resource with these models. We provide the information of similar electronic resources from other universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MECHANICAL engineers
MECHANICAL engineering
MATHEMATICAL models
ENGINEERING
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0094243X
- Volume :
- 1959
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 129401030
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5034756