Research on railway vehicle manufacturing technology in Japan during the Meiji period and the early Showa period

Abstract

The Museum of Industrial Technology of the Nippon Institute of Technology preserves at least 300 original drawings used to manufacture machine tools from the early Showa era.

Driving-Wheel-Lathe made of exhibited 1905 years and Driving-Wheel-Lathe made of 1927 years restored by a Three-Dimensional-Model were compared and investigated in a Museum of Industrial Technology.

We report the methodology of the survey and summarize the results obtained to examine the history of machine technology.