A brief illustrated history of machines and mechanisms / 
Emilio Bautista Paz ... [et al.]. 
 - Dordrecht ;  New York :  Springer,  c2010. 
 - xvi, 217 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - History of mechanism and machine science ;  v. 10 .
 - History of mechanism and machine science ;  v. 10. .
<br/><br/> "Revised and updated translation of the original Spanish work, "Breve historia ilustrada de las maquinas" ETSII, Madrid, Spain, 2007"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Anonymous developments -- Chinese inventions and machines -- Mechanical engineering in antiquity -- Medieval machines and mechanisms -- The machine renaissance -- Machines in the first colonial empires -- Machinery during the industrial revolution -- A vision on machines. 
<br/><br/><br/>Translated from the Spanish. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789048125111 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010-926023 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Machinery--History.<br/>Mechanical movements--History.<br/>Mechanical engineering--History.<br/>Mechanization--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TJ15  / .B7413 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.809