User:Utopiah/Books/History of engines

Goal: study how engines evolved over time, explore efficiency, see if patterns emerged (e.g. flood of innovation thanks to newly available material, productivity boost with social implications, ...), understand the beauty of speed through engineering decisions.

Could be important to distinguish a mechanism e.g. Antikythera mechanism from an engine, both use energy to produce a useful behavior while trying to minimize waste. Following that line a computer could be consider an engine too.

"The word “engine” itself is of even older origin, ultimately deriving from the Latin ingenium (c. 1250), meaning “innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention.”" cf History of engineering


 * Engine
 * Timeline of heat engine technology
 * Timeline of motor and engine technology
 * History of the steam engine
 * History of the jet engine
 * History of the internal combustion engine
 * Traction engine
 * Nuclear fission
 * Engine efficiency
 * Electric motor
 * Nuclear marine propulsion
 * Hydraulic motor
 * Synthetic molecular motor
 * History of entropy
 * Category:History of engineering
 * Category:Steam engines