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Reuleaux, Franz
| (1829-1905), German machine kinematician, mechanical engineer (honorary ASME Member, 1882), was professor and president of the Royal Technical Institute in Berlin and author of Der Constructor and Theoretical Kinematics: Outline of a Theory of Machines (1875). Theoretical Kinematics provided the basics of machine theory and was later translated into French, Italian, and English. He is also known for his 1876 classification of kinematic pairs and the Reuleaux triangle, which finds its most important engineering application in the rotary internal-combustion engine. He was the son of Johann Joseph and Heloise Reuleaux, born in Eschweilerpumpe on 30 September 1829, died on 20 May 1905 in Berlin. He married Charlotte Overbeck (1829-1908) on 26 April 1856 in Bonn; they had 3 children. (Source misc. online notes.) |
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