The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to machines:

Machine – mechanical system that provides the useful application of power to achieve movement. A machine consists of a power source, or engine, and a mechanism or transmission for the controlled use of this power. The combination of force and movement, known as power, is an important characteristic of a machine.

Essence of machines

• Applied mechanics
• Machining, Machinist
• Mechanical engineering
• Mechanics
• Mechanism (engineering)

History of machines

• Antikythera mechanism
• Automatic lathe
• Enigma machine
• Early flying machines
• History of the bicycle
• History of computing hardware
• History of the sewing machine
• History of perpetual motion machines
• Industrial revolution
• History of mechanical engineering
• Paper machine
• Simple machine
• Tabulating machine
• Threshing machine
• Vending machine
• Washing machine

Machine theory

The mathematical tools for the analysis of movement in machines:

• Burmester theory
• Clifford algebra
• Dual quaternion
• Euler's rotation theorem
• Gear ratio
• Ideal machine
• Instantaneous center of rotation
• Mechanical advantage
• Power (physics)
• Rotation matrix
• Screw axis
• Screw theory
• Virtual work
• Work (physics)

Machine elements

Movement in a machine is controlled by mechanism elements that the shape forces and movement and structural elements that support these mechanisms.

Mechanism elements

• Block and tackle
• Brake
• Clutch
• Cam
• Cam follower
• Chain drive
• Continuously variable transmission
• Drive shaft
• Epicyclic gearing
• Four-bar linkage
• Gear
• Gear train
• Geneva drive
• Kinematic coupling
• Linkage (mechanical)
• Mechanism (engineering)
• Six-bar linkage
• Sprocket
• Transmission (mechanics)
• Universal joint

Structural elements

• Frame
• Fasteners
• Bearings
• Springs
• Lubricants
• Seals
• Clevis pin, Cotter pin, Spring pin, Taper pin
• Splines
• Keys

Types of machines and automated devices

• Clock
  • Atomic clock
  • Watch
  • Pendulum clock
  • Quartz clock
• Compressors and pumps
  • Archimedes' screw
  • Eductor-jet pump
  • Hydraulic ram
  • Pump
  • Trompe
  • Vacuum pump
• Conveyor systems
  • Conveyor belt
    • Treadmill
  • Conveyor transport
    • Escalator
    • Moving walkway
• Electronic machines
  • Computing machines
    • Calculator
    • Computer
  • Electronic components
    • Transistor
    • Diode
    • Capacitor
    • Resistor
    • Inductor
  • Telecommunications
    • Telephone system
• Engines
  • Heat engine: external combustion
    • Steam engine
    • Stirling engine
  • Heat engine: internal combustion
    • Reciprocating engine
    • Wankel engine
    • Jet engine
    • Rocket
  • Turbine engines
    • Gas turbine, Jet engine
    • Steam turbine
    • Water turbine
    • Wind generator
    • Windmill (Air turbine)
• Linkages
  • Pantograph
  • Peaucellier–Lipkin
• Power tools
  • Machine tools
    • Broaching machine
    • Drill press
    • Gear shaper
    • Hobbing machine
    • Hone
    • Lathe
    • Milling machine
    • Shaper
    • Planer
    • Stewart platform mills
    • Grinders
  • Hand-held power tools
    • Belt sander
    • Ceramic tile cutter tile saw
    • Chainsaw
    • Circular saw
    • Concrete saw
    • Diamond blade
    • Diamond tools
    • Disc sander
    • Drill
    • Heat gun
    • Impact wrench
    • Jigsaw
    • Nail gun
    • Powder-actuated tools
    • Random orbital sander
    • Rotary tool (such as Dremel)
    • Sander
    • Wood router
    • Trimmer
  • Other
    • Air compressor
    • Bandsaw
    • Belt sander
    • Biscuit joiner
    • Cold metal-cutting saw
    • Crusher
    • Disc sander
    • Jointer
    • Radial arm saw
    • Random orbital sander
    • Sander
    • Steel cut-off saw
    • Table saw
    • Thickness planer
    • Wood router
    • grinder
• Robotics
  • Robot
  • Android
  • Animatronic
  • Automaton
  • ASIMO
  • Industrial robot
  • Robotic arm
• Simple machine – There are only 3 fundamental machines, with 4 variations, for a total of 7 simple machines
  • Lever
  • Inclined Plane
    • Screw – combination of a wheel and an inclined plane
    • Wedge
  • Wheel
    • Pulley
    • Gear – combination of a wheel and a lever
• Vehicles
  • Man powered vehicles
    • Bicycle
    • Pedalo
  • Powered vehicles
    • Car
    • Train
    • Airplane
    • Ship
• Miscellaneous
  • Vending machine
  • Wind tunnel

General machine-related concepts

• Automation
• Fabrication
• Factory
• Machine shop
• Manufacturing
• Production line
• Tools

Machine operations

• Cutting
• Deformation
• Drilling
• Edge jointing
• Knurling
• Molding
• Sanding

Mechanical components

• Gear
• Rope
• Spring
• Wheel
• Axle
• Bearings
• Belts
• Seals
• Roller chains
• Link chains
• Rack and pinion
• Fastener
• Key

Airfoil

Airfoil

• Sail
• Wing
• Rudder
• Flap
• Propeller

Inventors and designers of machines

• Archimedes
• Banū Mūsā
• Joseph Marie Jacquard
• Jerome H. Lemelson
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Thomas Edison
• James Watt

Machine lists

• List of early flying machines
• Outline of robotics

See also

• Outline of robotics
• Outline of automation
• Engineering
• Technology
• Soft Foot

External links

• Reuleaux Collection of Mechanisms and Machines at Cornell University