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Dynamics --- Chaotic behavior in systems --- Fractals --- Dynamique --- Chaos --- Fractales --- 541.124 --- 536.7 --- #TELE:SISTA --- Fractal geometry --- Fractal sets --- Geometry, Fractal --- Sets, Fractal --- Sets of fractional dimension --- Dimension theory (Topology) --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Statics --- Chaos in systems --- Chaos theory --- Chaotic motion in systems --- Differentiable dynamical systems --- Nonlinear theories --- System theory --- Limits of reactions --- Thermodynamics. Energetics --- Chaotic behavior in systems. --- Dynamics. --- Fractals. --- 536.7 Thermodynamics. Energetics --- 541.124 Chemical dynamics in general. Reaction mechanism in general --- 541.124 Limits of reactions --- Chemical dynamics in general. Reaction mechanism in general

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Electromagnets. --- Magnetic devices. --- Superconductors.

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This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using examples from the history of machines, as well as case studies from wireless, radio and chaos theory, the author challenges the genius model of invention. Network analysis concepts are presented to demonstrate the societal nature of invention in areas such as steam power, internal combustion engines, early aviation, air conditioning and more. Using modern measures of network theory, the author demonstrates that the social networks of invention from the 19th and early 20th centuries have similar characteristics to modern 21st C networks such as the World Wide Web. The book provides evidence that exponential growth in technical innovation is linked to the growth of historical innovation networks.

Social sciences (general) --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Physics --- Machine elements --- Applied physical engineering --- Computer science --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- draadloze computernetwerken --- informatica --- sociale wetenschappen --- airconditioning --- methodologieën --- machines --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- fysica --- Social networks. --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects.

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Chaotic behavior in systems --- Mechanics, Applied --- Nonlinear theories --- Congresses

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Ah the Machine; both coveted and criticized, life sustaining and life destr- ing yet always a symbol of human creativity and invention from the Rena- sance to robotics from the Wright brothers to the Wankel engine. There are more than a billion mechanical machines in our world of six billion humans. These machines are the source of both marvel and mayhem in the life of our planet. This book is about the evolution of these machines and the inv- tors and engineers who created them from the early Renaissance to the early 20th century. I have chosen two personalities who are icons of these two machine ages, Leonardo da Vinci [1452-1519] and Franz Reuleaux [1829- 1905], recognizing both the cadre of machine designers who in?uenced them as well as those who were in?uenced by the accomplishments of these two engineers. A major thesis of this book is that the evolution of machine design methodology, from the intuitive methods of the workshop to the math-based, engineering science analysis and synthesis of modern industrial design, was of equal achievement as the creation of the marvelous machines themselves. In the past two decades there has been increasing interest in rational me- ods of design from topology and optimization theories to genetic algorithms. In the teaching of design at the novitiate level, the importance of design - cles and iteration is emphasized. Yet often the historical background for e- lution of machine design is minimal or missing.

Science --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- Materials sciences --- Electrical engineering --- Machine elements --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Production management --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- popularisering wetenschap --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- elektriciteit --- wetenschappen --- machines --- ingenieurswetenschappen