Agostino Ramelli (born 1531 in Ponte Tresa or Mesanzena, Italy, died 1600) was an engineer who designed the "book wheel" or "reading wheel". Ponte Tresa is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering. The bookwheel, an alternative version of the Revolving bookstand, is a device designed to allow one person to read a variety of heavy books in one location with ease
In 1588 Ramelli published a book, The Diverse and Artifactitious Machines of Captain Agostino Ramelli, of engineering designs including many pumps and a possible forerunner to the Wankel engine. The Wankel engine is a type of Internal combustion engine which uses a rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating This book is still printed and sold.
His "book wheel" presented volumes of text to readers in whatever position they had last placed them, and thus it is considered an early prototype of hypertext and hence the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
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