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An ingenious work on contact mechanics by Föppl and Schubert went into oblivion due to the Second World War

28.09.2020 tribonet 194 Views

The history of science sometimes reads like a detective novel. The personal destinies sometimes lead to the fact that outstanding, ingenious works which were decades ahead of their time, sink into oblivion. This seems to […]

Who is The First? Leonardo da Vinci!

06.06.2016 Dr. Aydar Akchurin 906 Views

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, the famous Italian engineer, architect, painter, musician, mathematician can also be considered as The First Tribologist! Although the term itself was invented approximately 450 years after Leonardo da Vinci […]