FIFTY YEARS OF THE ARCHIVE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

摘要

In 1954, the quarterly "Archiwum Budowy Maszyn" was brought to life, and its origination was the fulfilment of resolution of the Division IV of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The magazine was dedicated to publishing scientific works on mechanical engineering, i.e. research on fundamental theoretical problems of design and construction of machines and mechanisms. Time goes fast, and this year we initiate the fifty-first year of existence of the Quarterly, published now under its present title "The Archive of Mechanical Engineering". The anniversary creates a good occasion for recapitulation and considerations on the future of the Quarterly, and for reminding achievements of the persons whose efforts made it possible to continue the publishing endeavour for half a century. Trying to recapitulate the first ten years of existence of the Quarterly (1954-1964), the Editorial Board noted down the following facts: 226 papers were published in that period, consisting of works of 122 authors printed on over 6000 pages. Now we can say that, in the period of fifty years, 1357 papers have been published, which has taken more than 27 thousands of pages.