http://www.metafilter.com/tags/mechanicaltoy Posts tagged with 'mechanicaltoy' at MetaFilter. Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:22:10 -0800 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:22:10 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/41317/Kinematic%2DModels <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/index.php">19th century mechanical models</a> for teaching the principles of kinematics, the geometry of motion. Includes <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/model.php">images and descriptions</a>, <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/resources.php">QT movies</a> of some of the models in motion, <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/resources.php?t=14">javascript simulations</a>, and an online <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/bib.php">library</a> of historical mechanical and engineering texts in html and pdf, including da Vinci's <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/bib.php?m=40">Madrid Codices</a>, and Charles Babbage on <a href="http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/bib.php?m=34">On a Method of Expressing by Signs The Action of Machinery</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41317 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:22:10 -0800 engineering history mechanicaltoy carter