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unusual facts about Georg Andreas Böckler


Böckler

Georg Andreas Böckler (1644–1698), German architect and engineer specialising in hydraulic architecture


Crankshaft

From the 16th century onwards, evidence of cranks and connecting rods integrated into machine design becomes abundant in the technological treatises of the period: Agostino Ramelli's The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of 1588 alone depicts eighteen examples, a number that rises in the Theatrum Machinarum Novum by Georg Andreas Böckler to 45 different machines, one third of the total.


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