subject: Gears Manufacturers in india [print this page] Franz Reuleaux's mission was to codify, analyze, and synthesize kinematic mechanisms so that engineers could approach machine design in a rational way. He laid the foundation for a systematic study of machines by defining clearly the machine and mechanism, determining the basic building blocks, and developing a system for classifying known mechanism types. Reuleaux created in Berlin a collection of over 800 models of mechanisms and authorized a German company, Gustav Voigt, Mechanische Werkstatt, in Berlin, to manufacture these models so that technical schools could use them for teaching about machines to engineers. Cornell University, with the initiative of its first president A. D. White, acquired a large kinematic model collection in 1882.
