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Throughout the chapters of this book, the reader will be able to see that the preliminary information about machines and mechanisms is described as something already existing at the time of the treatises referring to that information. The information and the machinery itself already formed part of the cultural heritage of the community that was used to construct and use them. Only rarely, at the beginning of history, and then eventually with greater frequency, are machines presented as the results of conscious individual designs.
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Paz, E.B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J.E., Sanz, J.L.M. (2009). Anonymous Developments. In: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_1
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