Engineering · Mechanical Engineering
A topic within Mechanical Engineering, itself one of 15 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
William John Macquorn Rankine
Surveys the whole apparatus of mechanical engineering as taught at the time — mechanism, strength, gearing and mill construction — as one discipline rather than a set of trades.
link checked 17 Sept 2026J. Kim Vandiver (MIT OpenCourseWare)
Develops the modelling of moving mechanical systems — rigid bodies, vibration, rotating machinery — so that a real machine can be reduced to equations of motion that predict how it fails.
link checked 17 Sept 2026