Russian Models from the Mechanisms Collection of Bauman University

PREFACE BY SERIES EDITOR; PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ; Brief History of Bauman University (IMTS-BMSTU) 1 'APPLIED MECHANICS' .TM M IN BAUMAN UNIVERSITY; 1.1 The first course of the Theory of Mechanisms ; 1.2 Enlargement and development of the course ; 1.3 Semigraphical methods of Professor L. Smirnov (1929-1949); 1.4 Smimov's pedagogic school ; 1.5 Recent times ; 2. HISTORY OF APPLIED MECHANICS CABINET AND MECHANISMS COLLECTION; 2.1 The first models and start of collection; 2.2. Chebyshev's mechanisms ; 2.3. Demonstration models of N . Joukovsky ; 2.4. Further accumulation of the collection by Professor L . Smimov; 2.5. Professor Lenoid Reshetov's contribution ; 2.6 Contribution of Professor Vladimir Gavrilenko's scientific school ; 2.7. New times, problems and perspective views ; 2.8. Classification of mechanisms of the Bauman University collection; 3 RUSSIAN MODELS W THE BMSTU MECHANISMS COLLECTION ; 3.1. Models of kinematic pairs and statically determinate connections ; 3.2. Linkages ;3.3. Cams ; 3.4. Model of toothed tnechanisms; 3.5. Models of explosion engines; 3.6. Models of typewriter printing mechanisms; 3.7. Mechanisms of locomotive devices; 3.8. Mechanisms of Kazan's scientific school ; 3.9. Models of the Reshetov scientific school ; 3.10. Models of the Gavrilenko scientific school; 3.11. Models developed by special construction departments; 3.12. Models created by the authors of the book; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX .

From the reviews:"The present book under review will be of great value to everybody interested in the history of mechanisms and machine sciences, and will hopefully re-kindle the interest in completing the classification of and the required maintenance work for some of the models at the Bauman University's TMM department." (Franz Selig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1182, 2010)