TY - CHAP
T1 - Research and science educations of lu ban’s horse carriages
AU - Yan, Hong Sen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Lu Ban (~ 507-444 BC) was a master carpenter in ancient China. He invented a legendary wooden horse carriage which was first mentioned in the book Lun Heng by Wang Chong (~ 27-97 AD) but was subsequently lost in the long past years. Based on the methodology for the reconstruction design of lost mechanisms developed by the author, his research group at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) started to reconstruct various designs of this lost machine in 1993. One of the feasible designs, a planar linkage with 8 bars and 10 joints as the leg mechanism, was further developed into various mechanical horse carriages without and with electrical powers. And, the corresponding hardware and educational kits have been successfully used for science programs at the National Science and Technology Museum and NCKU since 2002.
AB - Lu Ban (~ 507-444 BC) was a master carpenter in ancient China. He invented a legendary wooden horse carriage which was first mentioned in the book Lun Heng by Wang Chong (~ 27-97 AD) but was subsequently lost in the long past years. Based on the methodology for the reconstruction design of lost mechanisms developed by the author, his research group at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) started to reconstruct various designs of this lost machine in 1993. One of the feasible designs, a planar linkage with 8 bars and 10 joints as the leg mechanism, was further developed into various mechanical horse carriages without and with electrical powers. And, the corresponding hardware and educational kits have been successfully used for science programs at the National Science and Technology Museum and NCKU since 2002.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_30
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85028849686
T3 - Mechanisms and Machine Science
SP - 387
EP - 397
BT - Mechanisms and Machine Science
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -