The history of development of Mechanisms and machine is as old as the mankind itself. One may say that the first ever device/tool used by man was perhaps a Wedge made from a piece of rock:
It is quite likely that the wedge may have enabled the stone age man to accomplish tasks like cutting, hunting etc.
Pivots and percussions may have been used during stone age, which according to the historians, lasted approximately 3.4 million years, supposedly ended sometime till 6000 - 2000 BCE. The tools such as Wedges, Inclines, Pivots etc. were perhaps used by human as well as their predecessors species - genus Homo.
Mechanical Engineering came into being once the designing of machines started, in a real sense, after the invention of the Steam Engine by James Watt (1736 - 1819) leading to the industrial revolution.
James Watt was a Scottish Mechanical Engineer and an inventor - he is credited with the invention of the Steam Engine. The concept of the harnessing the power of steam to produce mechanical work was developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, which was principally used for pumping out water from the mines. The concept was modified by James Watt by introducing a condenser by which the energy of the steam could be utilized without much wastage thereby the power and the Newcomen Engine was dramatically improved.
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It is quite likely that the wedge may have enabled the stone age man to accomplish tasks like cutting, hunting etc.
Pivots and percussions may have been used during stone age, which according to the historians, lasted approximately 3.4 million years, supposedly ended sometime till 6000 - 2000 BCE. The tools such as Wedges, Inclines, Pivots etc. were perhaps used by human as well as their predecessors species - genus Homo.
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Mechanical Engineering came into being once the designing of machines started, in a real sense, after the invention of the Steam Engine by James Watt (1736 - 1819) leading to the industrial revolution.
James Watt was a Scottish Mechanical Engineer and an inventor - he is credited with the invention of the Steam Engine. The concept of the harnessing the power of steam to produce mechanical work was developed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, which was principally used for pumping out water from the mines. The concept was modified by James Watt by introducing a condenser by which the energy of the steam could be utilized without much wastage thereby the power and the Newcomen Engine was dramatically improved.
James Watt entered into a partnership with Matthew Boulton in 1775 and formed a firm, called Boulton and Watt, to manufacture the steam engine on a commercial scale and the engine thus manufactured was known as the Boulton Watt engine.
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