Section I: Eminent Scientists of the Past -- 1 Lagrange as a Historian of Mechanics, by Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrásio Oliveira -- 2 Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis and his Handbook of Machine Designs, by Marco Ceccarelli -- 3 Tribute to Reuleaux, Roberto Bragastini -- 4 Elia Ovazza, Professor of TMM in Palermo around the End of the 19th Century, by Marco Ceccarelli, Francesco Sorge, Giuseppe Genchi -- 5 Academician K.V. Frolov at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, by Olga Egorova, Gennady Timofeev -- Section II: History of Industrial Installations -- 6 Historical Watermills: Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage, by Mario Centofanti, Stefano Brusaporci, Vittorio Lucchese -- 7 The Mill at the Lagoon of Orbetello. Mechanisms and Hydraulic Energy, by Emanuela Chiavoni -- 8 The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily, by Vincenzo Ferrara -- 9 The History of Aircraft Manufacturing at the Braşov IAR Plant, by Horia Salcă, Dan Săvescu -- 10 Science, Technology and Industry in Southern Italy Before the Unification, by Cesare Rossi, Marco Ceccarelli -- 11 Medium Size Companies of Mechanical Industry in North Italy During the Second Half of the 19th Century, by Yibing Fang, Marco Ceccarelli -- Section III: History of Machinery and Transport -- 12 The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms. More than a Century of History of Technology, by Riccardo Monastero, Giuseppe Genchi -- 13 History of the Trains Used on the Spanish Railway Line Madrid – Almorox, by Daniel Fernández Caballero, Víctor Rodríguez de la Cruz, Julián Martín Jarillo, Manuel Esperón Mínguez -- 14 Airship – The American Dream by Quirico Filopanti, 1851, Pier Gabriele Molari --  Section IV: Human Inventiveness for Mechanical and Scientific Devices -- 15 Archimedes’ Screw in the Four Books “De Cochlea” by Guido Ubaldo del Monte [Santa Maria] – Venice – 1615: the Engineering and the Language, by Elena Magnini, Pier Gabriele Molari -- 16 On the Birth and Growth of Pendulum Clocks in the Early Modern Era, by Francesco Sorge, Marco Cammalleri, Giuseppe Genchi -- 17 Machine Designs and Drawings in Renaissance Editions of De Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, by Michela Cigola, Marco Ceccarelli -- 18 Trompes or Water Bellows. A Way of Producing Wind through the Fall of Water, by Umberto Meneghetti -- 19 Determination of Torsional Stresses in Shafts: From Physical Analogies to Mathematical Models, by Augusto Ajovalasit, Vincenzo Nigrelli, Giuseppe Pitarresi, Gabriele Virzì Mariotti -- Section V: Robots and Human-Driven Automata -- 20 The Automaton Nysa: Mechanism Design in Alexandria in the 3rd Century BC, by Teun Koetsier, Hanfried Kerle -- 21 Hindu Temple Carts – Rathams­, by Jammi Srinivasa Rao, Babaji Raja Bhonsle, Bigil Kumar -- 22 Robots: An Evolving Species, by Alberto Rovetta, Vincenzo Iannone.