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This work deals with the historical aspects of the origins and the evolution of the balancing theory of mechanisms, the researchers and the countries where work has been conducted on this problem, the fundamental results obtained in the course of this century and the aspects in this evolution that are considered to be the most significant.
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Arakelian, V., Dahan, M., Smith, M. (2000). A Historical Review of the Evolution of the Theory on Balancing of Mechanisms. In: Ceccarelli, M. (eds) International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms Proceedings HMM 2000. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9554-4_33
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