Kinematic Models
April 18, 2005 12:22 PM Subscribe
19th century mechanical models for teaching the principles of kinematics, the geometry of motion. Includes images and descriptions, QT movies of some of the models in motion, javascript simulations, and an online library of historical mechanical and engineering texts in html and pdf, including da Vinci's Madrid Codices, and Charles Babbage on On a Method of Expressing by Signs The Action of Machinery.
Curved Triangular Rotor in a Square Chamber ..... movie... mesmerizing... can't ... stop.... watching...
posted by R. Mutt at 1:27 PM on April 18, 2005
posted by R. Mutt at 1:27 PM on April 18, 2005
Neat post, but the simulations are Java not Javascript.
posted by elderling at 1:38 PM on April 18, 2005
posted by elderling at 1:38 PM on April 18, 2005
Oops. I messed up too. "Javascript." should be "JavaScript."
Again, great post.
posted by elderling at 1:44 PM on April 18, 2005
Again, great post.
posted by elderling at 1:44 PM on April 18, 2005
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