Restoration and digital display of max kohl mechanisms in the engineering school of usal

Abstract

Max Kohl Company, in Chemnitz (Germany), was a manufacturer of educational mechanisms that were distributed all around the world. In the early twentieth century, the University of Salamanca (USAL) bought some of them for the Engineering School of B́ejar. Now, this collection of mechanisms is being restored by a group of professors of the Engineering School. The mechanismcharacterization was carried out with the help of Max Kohl Chemnitz catalogues. This initiative and other are being discovered by researchers working in the European Project thinkMOTION. The thinkMOTION Project aims to create the world's largest openaccess digital library of content in the field of machines and mechanisms. This paper shows brief descriptions of some the mechanisms and the way they look like once they are uploaded to the digital library. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013.