04034nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-63042-2 DE-He213 20251030113126.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241004s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031630422 978-3-031-63042-2 10.1007/978-3-031-63042-2 doi T14.7-33 TBX bicssc TEC056000 bisacsh TBX thema Genchi, Giuseppe. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85599 The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo [electronic resource] : The Collection Catalogue / by Giuseppe Genchi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXXIII, 295 p. 353 illus., 298 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 1875-3426 ; 48 -- 1. Stationary engines. -- 2. Marine engines. -- 3. Aircraft engines. -- 4. Aeroplanes. -- 5. Automotive and motorcycle engines. -- 6. Didactic mechanisms and models. -- 7. Technical equipment, parts, and accessories. The book describes the collection of the Museum Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, one of the most important and heterogeneous collections of engines and mechanisms in Europe, the first one in Italy to be awarded as Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Thanks to its numerous items, this book showcases the evolution of fluid machinery and applied mechanics, from steam engines up to turbojet engines, as well as hybrid system, giving several technical and historical information about its most important engines, which are described in detail through pictures and original drawings. The Museum preserves and makes freely available this almost unique collection of more than 300 engines, didactic models, and technical equipment, including various unique exemplars, continuously enhanced thanks to donations and through restoration activities carried out in a dedicated laboratory of the Museum. As a result of a great deal of philological research carried out on the documents collected in the Museum’s archive, as well as in other institutional and corporate historical archives, this book serves as the reference tool of the collection and, more generally, of the Museum itself. Despite the technical subject and the academic environment in which it was created, the catalogue is realized to be read even by non-experts, offering different levels of detail, the first of which is the historical, economic and, in certain cases, even sporting context related to an engine, such as the vehicle for which it was designed and used. Technology. 58482 History. Mechanical engineering. 58323 Cultural property. Science History. 65232 Science Study and teaching. 59952 History of Technology. 66100 Mechanical Engineering. 58323 Cultural Heritage. History of Science. 66101 Science Education. 69095 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031630415 Printed edition: 9783031630439 Printed edition: 9783031630446 History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 1875-3426 ; 48 66102 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63042-2 ZDB-2-ENG ZDB-2-SXE 63989 63989