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A Contribution to the History of Cam Mechanisms – From Leonardo da Vinci Till Today

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Cams and cam mechanisms are widely spread in mechanical engineering design, mostly to transform uniform rotary motion into non-uniform rotary motion or into linear motion. Sometimes cams and cam mechanisms are coupled with linkages, thus giving a broader variety of output motions and applications. From the historical point of view it is possible to derive cam mechanisms from some of the “mechanical abilities” in the antiquity. The present paper tries to reveal the roots of cams and cam mechanisms starting in the time of Leonardo da Vinciand ending with some well-known applications of today. It refers to two preparatory papers (Müller and Mauersberger, Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kurvengetriebe, 1988; Müller and Mauersberger, LEONARDO DA VINCI – Seine Beziehungen zum Kurvengetriebe im Vorfeld der Technikwissenschaften, 1990) written in 1988 and 1990 by the late Prof. Jörg Müller (Rostock, Germany) and the second author as co-author. The rather concise retrospective is mainly taken from a post in Germany.

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  1. Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigungstechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19b, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany

    Hanfried Kerle

  2. Zentrale Einrichtung Kustodie, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, D-01069 Dresden, Germany

    Klaus Mauersberger

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  1. Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Nat. Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan R.O.C

    Hong-Sen Yan

  2. Dipto. Meccanica, Strutture, Università Cassino, Ambiente e Territorio Via G. di Biasio, 43, 03043 Cassino, Italy

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Kerle, H., Mauersberger, K. (2009). A Contribution to the History of Cam Mechanisms – From Leonardo da Vinci Till Today. In: Yan, HS., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9485-9_10

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