Evolution of the machine

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    introduction

    introduction
    Since prehistory, the technological evolution of machine tools has been based on the tool-machine binomial. For centuries, the tool was the prolongation of the hand of man until the appearance of the first rudimentary machines that helped in its use. Although in the antiquity there were no proper machine tools.

  • XVII century

    XVII century
    By the beginning of the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci had designed the three main machines for coining coins: the laminator, the trimmer and the rocker press. Apparently, these designs served Cellini to build a rudimentary rocker press in 1530, but the generalized implementation is attributed to Nicolás Briot in 1626.
    The discovery of the combination of the pedal with a rod and a connecting rod allowed its application in the first instance to the whetting wheels, and soon after to the lathes.

  • 18th century: new source of energy

    18th century: new source of energy
    The eighteenth century was a period in which man devoted all his efforts to achieve the use of a new source of energy. The Frenchman Denis Papin, with the experience of his famous kettle, made in 1690, unveiled the fundamental principle of the steam engine. Watt conceived his idea of ​​steam engine in 1765, but he did not solve the problems to build a machine valid for industrial uses until fifteen years later, in 1780.