Animal mechanism by etienne-jules marey study

Today, we try to build machines that work like animals.. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.

French physiologist Etienne Jules Marey was born in 1830, and he trained in medicine and physiology.

Animal mechanism by etienne-jules marey study

For the first ten years of his career, Marey focused on instrumentation. He measured the circulation and hydraulics of blood and breath, the elasticity, strength, and tone of muscle, the behavior of the heart. To do all this, he built a stunning variety of mechanical instruments.

At first it was pretty much measurement for measurement's sake.

Then Marey began focusing on one particular question: How do animals move and birds fly? In 1873 he published the first of his many books: Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and aerial Locomotion.

Animal mechanism by etienne-jules marey study guide

His opening sentence is loaded. He writes:

Living beings have frequently been ... compared to machines,