Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan)

The Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan) (機械遺産, kikaiisan) is a list of sites, landmarks, machines, and documents that made significant contributions to the development of mechanical engineering in Japan. Items in the list are certified by the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) (日本機械学会, Nihon Kikai Gakkai).

Overview

The Mechanical Engineering Heritage program was inaugurated in June 2007 in connection with the 110th anniversary of the founding of the JSME. The program recognizes machines, related systems, factories, specification documents, textbooks, and other items that had a significant impact on the development of mechanical engineering. When a certified item can no longer be maintained by its current owner, the JSME acts to prevent its loss by arranging a transfer to the

The JSME plans to certify several items of high

Categories

Items in the Mechanical Engineering Heritage (Japan) are classified into four categories:

1. Sites: Historical sites that contain heritage items.
2. Landmarks: Representative buildings, structures, and machinery.
3. Collections: Collections of machinery, or individual machines.
4. Documents: Machinery-related documents of historical significance.

Each item is assigned a Mechanical Engineering Heritage number.

Items certified in 2007

Sites

• No. 1:
  Steam engines and hauling machinery at the Kosuge Ship Repair Dock, (built in 1868). – Nagasaki Prefecture

• No. 2: Memorial workshop and
  machine tools at Kumamoto University, (built in 1908). – Kumamoto Prefecture

• No. 3: Forged iron treadle lathe (made in 1875 by Kaheiji Ito). – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 4: Industrial
  Steam Turbine (Parsons
  steam turbine), (made in 1908). – Nagasaki Prefecture
• No. 5: 10A Mazda Wankel engine (made in 1967). – Hiroshima Prefecture
• No. 6:
  Clean Air Act (1970)). – Tochigi Prefecture
• No. 7: FJR710
  Jet Engine
  (made in 1971). – Tokyo
• No. 8:
  Diesel Engine, Model HB (made in 1933). – Shiga Prefecture
• No. 9: Prof. Inokuchi's centrifugal pump, (made in 1912). – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 10:
  generator (made in 1929 by German AEG
  ). – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 11: 0-Series
  electric multiple units (operated 1964–1978). – Osaka Prefecture
• No. 12: Class 230 No.233 2-4-2 steam tank locomotive (made 1902–1909). – Osaka Prefecture
• No. 13: YS11 passenger airplane (flown 1964–2009). – Tokyo
• No. 14: Cub Type F, Honda bicycle engine (1952). – Tochigi Prefecture
• No. 15: Chain stitch sewing machine for the production of straw hats (made in 1928). – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 16: Non-stop shuttle change automatic loom, Toyoda Type G (made in 1924). – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 17: Hand operated letterpress printing machine (made in 1885). – Tokyo
• No. 18: Komatsu bulldozer G40 (made in 1943). – Shizuoka Prefecture
• No. 19: Olympus gastrocamera GT-I (made in 1950). – Tokyo
• No. 20: Buckton^[1] universal testing machine (installed in 1908). – Hyōgo Prefecture
• No. 21: Mutoh Drafter manual drafting machine, MH-I (made in 1953). – Tokyo
• No. 22: Myriad year clock, (made in 1851). – Tokyo
• No. 23: The Chikugo River Lift Bridge (opened in 1935). – Between Fukuoka and Saga Prefecture

Documents

• No. 24: JSME publications from the early days of the society, (published in 1897, 1901 and 1934). – Tokyo
• No. 25: "
  Imperial University of Tokyo
  (1905). – Tokyo

Items certified in 2008

Sites

• No. 26: Sankyozawa
  hydroelectric power station and related objects, (operating since 1888). – Miyagi Prefecture
• No. 27:
  lock (made in United Kingdom, operating since 1908) and floating steam crane
  (operated 1905–2008), Miike Port. – Fukuoka Prefecture

• No. 28: "Entaro" bus (Ford TT type), (1923, adapted from chassis imported from United States). – Saitama Prefecture
• No. 29: Mechanical telecommunication devices (made in 1947 by Shinko Seisakusho Co.). – Iwate Prefecture
• No. 30: Mechanical calculator, (Yazu Arithmometer, patented in 1903). – Fukuoka Prefecture^[2]
• No. 31:
  design sheet (made in 1910, in the earliest days of the Japanese electrical machinery industry). – Ibaraki Prefecture

• No. 33: Minegishi Watermill, (installed in 1808, in operation till 1965). – Tokyo

Collections

• No. 34: The Master
  Worm wheel of the Hobbing
  Machine HRS-500, (machining by Hobbing machine of Rhein-Neckar from Germany in 1943). – Shizuoka Prefecture
• No. 35: Locomobile, The oldest private Steam Automobile in Japan, (one of eight imported from Locomobile Company of America in 1902, failured in 1908, discovered in 1978 then only boiler was replaced and operable in 1980). – Hokkaidō
• No. 36: Arrow-Gou, The oldest Japanese-made Car, (one of Japanese fundamental vehicle technology made in 1916). – Fukuoka Prefecture
• No. 37: British-made 50 ft
  Turn Table, (imported from Ransomes & Rapier made in 1897, but installed location was unknown before moved in 1941 then further moved to Ōigawa Railway
  in 1980, in operation. Two others are deemed also imported and still in operation in other locations, these historical details are not known). – Shizuoka Prefecture

• NO. 38:
  Coney Island, New York in 1911, operated till 1964, then purchased, refurbished and operate in Toshimaen since 1971. – Tokyo^[3][4]
• No. 39: Revolving stage and its slewing mechanism of old Konpira Grand Theatre. – Kagawa Prefecture

Collections

• No. 40:
  batteries by the time of the Korean War. – Kanagawa Prefecture
• No. 41: The first made in Japan
  max. load 6,000 pound, in 1949, learned from Clark Material Handling Company
  's 4,000-pound type. – Shiga Prefecture
• No. 42: Takasago and
  Refrigerating machine
  . – Kanagawa Prefecture
• No. 43: Automated Ticket Gate (
  OMRON and Kintetsu jointly studied from 1964, model PG-D120 operated from 1973 after prototype evaluation from 1967. – Kyoto Prefecture

• NO. 44: Seikan Train Ferry and Moving Rail Bridge. The ferry service started between Aomori Station of Honshu and Hakodate Station of Hokkaido in 1908, and became train ferry service from 1925 till Seikan Tunnel operated in 1988. Landmark is both Hakkoda Maru (八甲田丸) and moving rail bridge at Aomori Station, and Mashū Maru (摩周丸) and moving rail bridge at Hakodate Station. – Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaidō

Collections

• NO. 45: Type
  KW by four main motors
  . – Ibaraki Prefecture
• NO. 46: Silk reeling machines of the Okaya Silk Museum (
  Tomioka silk mill which operated from 1872, Japan made machine based on French and Italian technologies, and some other Japan made improved and innovated machines. – Nagano Prefecture
• NO. 47: Toyoda Power Loom. Looms power by steam engine type and electric motor types invented by Sakichi Toyoda in 1897 and patented next year. Machine's productivity is 20 times high and 1/20 of low in machine cost compared to imported machines, widely used throughout Japan. – Aichi Prefecture
• NO. 48: Hydraulic Excavator UH03 is the first evolved type, made in Japan in 1965, having double hydraulic pumps and double valves with bucket size 0.35 m³ and engine output 58 hp. The excavators made in Japan before UH03 are single hydraulic pump and single valve type under technical tied up with Europe. – Ibaraki Prefecture
• NO. 49:
  YKK Group first made in Japan machine in 1953, evolved from imported machine from US in 1950. – Toyama Prefecture
• NO. 50: Ticket Vending Machine is the first
  Suita, Osaka
  – Nagano Prefecture.

• NO. 51:
  Tokyu Car Corporation in 1965 is the first all stainless steel railcar including framing. The framing technologies learned and improved under technical tie-up with Budd Company
  .- Kanagawa Prefecture
• NO. 52: Yoshino Ropeway opened on March 12, 1929. The oldest surviving aerial lift line in Japan and oldest class in worldwide. – Nara Prefecture

Collections

• NO. 53: Oldest in Japan England style 9-foot length lathe made by Ikegai Corp., the first machine tool manufacture of Japan, in 1889 for own use. – Tokyo
• NO. 54:
  copier model 101 is the first Japanese blueprint document reproduction machine using the diazo chemical process made in 1955. This copier with the newly innovated photographic paper brings no need to rinse in washing water and no odor
  operation. – Shizuoka Prefecture
• NO. 55: Washlet G released in 1980 is the first type innovated by Toto. The original model for therapy of hemorrhoid were imported from American Bidet company in 1964 for Japanese market.^[5][6] Toto opened new market as the electric toilet seats for general use. – Fukuoka Prefecture

Items certified in 2013

Landmarks

• No. 56: Mechanical Car Parking System ROTOPARK, made by Bajulaz S.A. company of Switzerland, was imported in 1976 and installed as parking system in underground at south exit of Shinjuku Station.^[7] System is controlled by mechanical relay and DC motor. – Tokyo

Collections

• NO. 57: Dawn of Japanese Home Electric Appliances made by
  Shōwa period 1930 to 1931, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner made based on General Electric model, and washing machine produced under technology introduction from Thor washing machine
  of Chicago-based Hurley Electric Laundry Equipment Company. – Kanagawa Prefecture
• NO. 58: Former
  Memorial House
  . – Kanagawa Prefecture
• NO. 59: Okuma Non-round
  mechanical
  industries. – Aichi Prefecture
• NO. 60: Japan's First 16mm Film Projector. Hand drive projector, study from imported model, made in 1927, and motor drive type developed in 1930 by Elmo company limited. – Aichi Prefecture
• NO. 61: Japanese
  Karakuri ningyō (lit: a boy bending a bow), created by Tanaka Hisashige
  . – Fukuoka Prefecture

• No. 62: Soil and Tractor Museum of Hokkaido. Display Tractor and Agricultural machinery innovation in Hokkaido mostly after World War II, and the resultant of artificial soil improvement technologies and agriculture managing philosophy. – Hokkaido
• No. 63: Museum of Agricultural Technology Progress. Imported and Japan made 250
  Meiji period to late 1950s to early 1960s. Display includes Japan originated rice transplanter and straw rope
  producer. – Saitama Prefecture
• No. 64:
  Telpher of the Port of Shimizu, operating in 1928 to 1971, height 8.4m, total rail length 189.4m, lift up weight 2 to 3 Tonne
  driven by electric motor, and used to imported wood discharge. – Shizuoka Prefecture

• No. 65: Japan-made Snow Vehicles (KD604 & KD605) which reached the South Pole in 1968. Three snow vehicles participated round trip 5200km for 5 months, but one vehicle KD503 was engine troubled and thrown away on outward. The prototype KD501 was not used for the trip, and KD502 is preserved in
  Tokyo and KD605 is in Akita Prefecture
• No. 66: Japan-made Wristwatches which Showed Remarkable Technological Innovations. Japan adopted Western style timekeeping system from
  wrist watch Seiko Laurel in 1913, watch Grand Seiko (グランドセイコー), in 1960, was accurate as Switzerland Chronometer watch then the world's first quartz clock wristwatch Seiko Quartz-Astron 35SQ
  in 1969. – Tokyo
• No. 67: Double Housing Plaining Machine: Made by Akabane Engineering Works, Ministry of Industry. Double Housing Plaining Machine, 6-foot type machine, with three emblem Chrysanthemum Flower Seal, made by Akabane Engineering Works of Ministry of Industry in 1879. Ministry of Industry produced Japan made various machine tool for industrial innovation aiming to modernization. – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 68: Fuji Automatic Massage Machine, mass production type invented by Fuji (フジ医療器) in 1954. – Osaka Prefecture

Documents

• No. 69: The Collection of Drawings for Japanese Machines. 288 drawings used, in early
  gas compressor, cryocooler, Machine tool, crane, haulage, spinning and weaving
  machine. – Tokyo

• No. 70: Railway bascule bridge "Suehiro Kyoryo". The bridge constructed in December 1931 and still in function as of 2015. The dimension is length 58m, width 4 m, balance scale 24 tons, movement girder length 18 m and weighs 48 tons. – Mie Prefecture

Collection

• No. 71: Automatic Encrusting Machine Model 105. High viscosity material such as dough, for Manjū and wagashi of Japan and bread worldwide, is traditionally encrusting by human hand. The automatic encrusting machine is invented as model 101 in 1963, and improved model 105 in 1966, then it had been sold 1838 set in 8 years and contributing world food cultures in effective making. – Tochigi Prefecture
• No. 72: Automatic Transmission of "MIKASA". The first Japanese Automatic transmission with torque converter developed in 1951 and front-wheel drive car MIKASA produced over 500 cars in 1957 to 1960. – Tokyo
• No. 73: Japan Made First
  Hyogo Prefecture
• No. 74: KOBAS Stationary Suction Gas Engine and Charcoal Gas Producer Unit. Wood gas engine with magneto ignition system had been started to develop in 1928 and produced in 1936. Less resource of petroleum during and after World War II in Japan, wood gas engine had been widely used by about 1955. – Hiroshima Prefecture
• No. 75: Small Once-through Steam Boiler Type ZP. This once-through Steam drum type boiler less than 10 Atmospheric pressure and 10 m² had been usable without license by change of law Industrial Safety and Health Act in 1959 then 70% shared in small boiler market. – Ehime Prefecture
• No. 76: All Electric Industrial Robot "MOTOMAN-L10". MOTOMAN-L10 is first all electric drive
  Hydraulic drive system robot used with less accurate positioning, moving range and speed. – Fukuoka Prefecture

• No. 77: Matsukawa Geothermal Power Plant. Operated in 1966, the first commercial power plant in Japan. To avoid
  vanadium steel without nickel. Initial power was 9,500ｋW, then improved to 23,500ｋW in 1993. – Iwate Prefecture

• No. 78: Subaru 360-K111. Japanese government proposed "national car" concept in 1955, then produced in 1958. Nicknamed tentoumushi(てんとう虫) means coccinellidae comparable to Volkswagen Beetle. – Gunma Prefecture
• No. 79: Double Expansion Marine Steam Engine. Main engine, 97 horsepower, of small wooden guard ship Tachibana maru (Kanji: たちばな丸) in port of Kobe since 1911. Ship used as training ship by Kobe University (former Kobe University of Mercantile Marine) till 1964. – Saitama prefecture
• No. 80: Simple
  meaning is money-matching-machine instead of traditional calculation by soroban, sold more than 10,000 units by 1927, well sold and widely used till further innovated type appeared after war over
  in 1945. – Tokyo
• No. 81: Tatsuno's Patent Gasoline Measuring Equipment Type No.25. First Japan made
  fuel dispenser in 1919. Implemented safety patented mechanism well worked and no fire in time of 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
  . – Kanagawa Prefecture
• No. 82: Gate-type Car Wash Machine. Gate shaped Japanese first car wash machine with horizontal and two side vertical rotating brush type and wash up a car in three minutes developed in 1962. Before this, car wash is manual brushing with waterjet in 1950s. – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 83: Optical Instruments of the
  Kashinozaki Lighthouse. Japan first one of eight Western style rotating flashing light lighthouse technically advised by Richard Henry Brunton operate in 1870. This is the first Stone Building out of 26 lighthouse advised and guided by him. – Wakayama Prefecture

• No. 84: Mechanical equipment full set in the bascule bridge at Kachidoki bridge. Kachidoki Bridge (勝鬨橋), bascule type bridge, the pivot axis to river other side pivot axis over Sumida River, is 51.6 m the longest length in Japan, and total length of the bridge is 246.0 m, constructed in 1940, movable operation ended in 1970, and classified Important Cultural Property in 2007. The one side of movable bridge part weight is 1,000 tonne with counterweight of 1,000 tonne, both river side total movable bridge part weighs 4,000 tonne in symmetry. The open or close speed is controlled by Ward Leonard control with combination of AC motor and DC motor. – Tokyo
• No. 85: The longitudinal flow ventilation system by
  inner diameter 630mm and length 4.7m were imported from German Voith and well tested, data evaluated, then applied in Okuda Tunnel (奥田トンネル) of Kitakyusyu Expressway in 1966, and used until tunnel width widen and changed to one-way traffic
  in 1975. This jet fan air ventilating direction is along length of tunnel and ventilating technology founded this application contributed more than eighty percent of tunnels of mountains in Japan. Two units is preserved. – Osaka Prefecture.

• No. 86: Electric car of Japan's first subway.
  Asakusa opened in 1927. The electric car, length 16m × width 2.6m × height 3.5m and weight 35.5 tonne, constructed with imported basic major parts and applied mechanical systems of ATS
  used in overseas. – Tokyo
• No. 87: Deep Submergence Research Vehicle SHINKAI 2000. Shinkai 2000 is the succession manned machine after Japanese first manned SHINKAI (1970–1976). – Kanagawa Prefecture
• No. 88: Green Sand Molding Machine Type C-11. The first Japanese sand casting molding machine capable to make 450mm×300mm×height 200mm mold, instead of traditional handmade mold. This machine was own developed in 1927, by refer to imported machine from United States. – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 89: Multihead Weigher ACW-M-1. Japanese first patented weighting machine, for various weight of number of
  pharmaceutical drug, machine component
  and others with major market share. – Shiga Prefecture
• No. 90: Full Automatic Glove Knitting Machine (Square Fingertip Type).
  Meiji period
  produced by hand knitting or semi-automatic. Full automated machine with sinker knitting method invented in 1964, producing single piece, or half of pair, of glove in 2 minutes and 15 seconds, and single worker monitors and controls 30 machines. – Wakayama Prefecture

• No. 91: Historical Machine Tools collected by
  Shōwa
  50s (1975–1984). – Saitama Prefecture
• No. 92: Airless Spray Painting Equipment. Under
  license
  , first made in Japan equipment with some improvements put on market in 1959. – Aichi Prefecture
• No. 93: CRT Funnel Pressing Machine.
  percent
  at the end of 1980s. – Siga Prefecture
• No. 94: Type Casting Machine of Newspaper Museum. Museum of Kumamoto Daily News displays various newspaper publishing machines, and one of them is Japan made first Man-nen jidou katsuji cyuzoki (万年自働活字鋳造機 (
  Japanese letter types
  in minute, used till 1982. – Kumamoto Prefecture

• No. 95: Conduit Gate of Tase Dam. Japan communicated frequently in detail and learned from US and adding own Japanese technology to improve U.S. made four high-pressure slide gates (conduit gates), then installed in the world record deepest near the bottom of the lake of dam completed in 1945. The water discharge system (the discharge volume per gate is 120 m3/s) from the lake, it became foundation of technologies to apply other dams thereafter. – Iwate Prefecture

• No. 96: Oil Mining and Refine System at Kanazu Oilfield.
  collapsible stratum. Kanichi Nakano (中野貫一) succeeded in manual drilling, mining and refining and production volume 150,000 kiloliters
  /year in 1916 and he was called oil king of Japan. Further mechanical method deployed, however it closed in 1998 and the museum opened to display facilitated machines and materials in 2008. – Niigata Prefecture

• No. 97: Steam Locomotives Preserved at Kyoto Railway Museum and Related Objects. 23 steam locomotives used until 1984, its maintenance facility and records are preserved. 8 locomotives out of 23, railway roundhouse and railway turntable are still operational. – Kyoto Prefecture

Collection

• No. 98: Dawn of Japanese Passenger Elevator. The elevator imported from US with basic elements, cage, guide rail and emergency stop system, were further studied then full push button automatic type elevator developed in 1915, and deployed in Japan. Displaying an elevator and related Japanese own process history of technological studies and improvements. – Fukui Prefecture

• No. 99: Monorail for Steep Slope MONORACK M-1. The simple
  mikan orchard in area of Seto Inland Sea, was widely used. In 1966 the newly developed monorail system capable of transporting crops in slope angle up to 40 degree and to curve left and right directions flexibly. This monorail is effectiveness in more free design for installation and laborsaving. – Okayama Prefecture

• No. 100: Educational Equipment for Mechanical Engineering of Imperial College of Engineering/Related Documents of C.D. West. The dawn of modern engineering in Japan is coincidently the same period of
  model, lecture note and educational material used by Charles Dickinson West, Henry Dyer
  and others are preserved and displayed. – Tokyo

• No. 101: ASAHIFLEX I・IIB, MIRANDA T, ZUNOW, NIKON F Single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras, which advanced Japanese cameras to the world standard. The five Japanese Single-lens reflex camera models, with more convenience and robustness, in 1950s, Asahi Flex I, IIB, Miranda T, Zunow and Nikon F, revolutionary opening new era of reputation and wording from Camera is German made to Camera is Japan made. – Tokyo

• No. 102: NARA Jiyu Mill (High-speed Impact Mill, First Milling Machine Manufactured in Japan). Laboratory of Furukawa Group asked Jiyuzo Nara (自由造 奈良, Jiyuzo Nara) to make improved pulverizer for casein with physical property of elasticity and thermostability, he referenced German made pulverizer and the first commercialized NARA Jiyu Milling machine with utility model in 1928. By strong impact and shearing force without generate heat, the pulverizer use to produce granular material of mineral, medicinal plants, food, dye, fodder, medicines and more. – Tokyo

• No. 103: Electric Arc Spray Gun in the early era of thermal spraying.
  abrasion resistance and chemical resistance
  . – Siga Prefecture

• No. 104:Continuously Variable Transmission/Ring-Cone Type. The ring cone (RC)
  Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) invented by Manabu Kashiwabara (学 柏原, Manabu Kashiwabara) in 1952. Power transmission take place through oil fluid without solid parts contact of power input cone to output cone, so that no wear of each cone. CVT is widely used on conveyor belt, machine tool
  and other area due to simple structure and low cost. It functions no slip and 2 to 3% or less rotation rate fluctuation by automatic each cone contact pressure-regulating mechanism. – Kyoto

• No. 105: Existing Japan's first Electric milking machine DK-5 II. First Japan made electric
  milking machine, by referencing the structure of imported milking machine with adding own made vacuum mechanism, is developed by Saburto Ohta (ja:大田 三郎, Ohta Saburto) in 1957. The machine is less price but better specifications and the relief of dairy farming hand milking
  hard physical labor, also health enhancement for Japanese people. The basic structure or mechanism of the machine is still applied since then. – Nagano Prefecture

• No. 106:
  firm of Okamoto Machine Tool Works, Ltd. (ja:岡本工作機械製所), he finally made it after trial and error in 1930 as the first Japan made spur gear grinding machine, then made total 13 machines by 1945. One machine is preserved at museum of Nippon Institute of Technology
  . Unique feature of this grinding machine is by changing the consisting gear, it is able to produce variety of gears with different size and number of tooth. – Saitama prefecture

• No. 107: Sushi Machine. Automated
  technique in 1981. Suzumo Machinery aimed to recover and increase total Japan rice consumption volume under the fact that the amount of rice consumption decreasing along with adjusting rice production under Japan set-aside policy, let people eat sushi more with less price in sushi shop is one of solution as consumer behavior. The machine produced 1,200 unit of sushi molding per hour, and opening conveyor belt sushi
  system. – Saitama Prefecture

• No. 108:
  railed vehicle specification
  . New test stand developed for maximum speed 500 km/h in 1990, but still this test stand operate and in use. – Tokyo

• No. 109: Japanese oldest pitching machines Catapult type：KS-P/AR. The catapult-type pitching machine was designed by Hachio Saito (ja:斉藤八雄, Saito Hachio), lecturer of Kanto Gakuin University. Type KS-P is produced in 1958 and preserved in The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum of Japan in Tokyo Dome and type AR is produced in the same time and preserved in Chunichi batting center. The mechanism is to pitch 12 throwing in a minute, fastball and breaking ball with rotation by means of hook, by reaction of compressed spring, and it is equivalent to 15 pitchers and well worked in lieu of batting practice pitcher. Arm-type and wheel type pitching machine are produced as follower machines, and batting center became popular amusement place. – Tokyo (KS-P) and Gifu prefecture (AR)

• No. 110: Electric Hand Planer Model 1000. Makita produced electric hand planer as the first consumer use product, by referring to United States made electric hand planer, suitable in terms of light weight, Japanese building material processing size, and easy handling by carpenter in 1958. Until then, plane job is physically heavy work, and required expertise. Electric planer Model 1000 opened other type of carpenter's various electric power tool consequently. This model consists of two blades of 120 mm width rotates 13,000 per minute, 26,000 cut, in a minute on 100 volt home mains electricity, realized easy process for hardwood and softwood, even against wood grain. – Aichi Prefecture

• No. 111: The Coining Presses during the Founding Period of the Japan Mint; Uhlhorn Münzprägemaschine and Presse Montaire de Thonnelier. In 1871, start-up Japan Mint was largest metal processing factory, melting bullion, casting, rolling, and die stamping making coin by the power of steam engine. The final stamping machine is invented by Diedrich Uhlhorn in 1817, and imported 10 units in 1871 to 1873, which produced 40 coins per minute.^[8] Other 8 units of French machine developed by Nicolas Thonnelier, made in 1857, were purchased from closed Hong Kong mint was capable to produce 50 coins per minute, and one out of 8 is preserved. Both of these preserved machine are historical value of Japanese coin processing and only several number of machines are preserved worldwide. – Osaka Prefecture

• No. 112:
  scale or crescent concatenated to form swivel or circle conveyor. Conveyor belt sushi mechanism, Yoshiaki Shiraishi (ja:白石 義明, Shiraishi Yoshiaki) inspired it come up with brewery bottling line system in 1948, and opened first sushi shop in Higashi Osaka
  in 1958. The machine certified here in is made in 1985 and still operating. – Osaka Prefecture

• No. 114: Surface Grinding Machine PSG-6B. Surface grinding machine is used for final surface finishing for machine element. This machine implements horizontal moving rectangle table with grinding unit which move up and down precisely. Okamoto Machine Tool Works, Ltd. (ja:岡本工作機械製所) applied self-developed hydraulic pump and hydraulic cylinder to drive the rectangle table and four precision ball bearings on the grinding unit, then possible to move producing machine element by 0.001 mm steps, and it was the first machine realized 1/1,000 mm of precision surface finishing in 1953. – Gunma Prefecture

• No. 115: Timber pre-cut system MPS-1. 57 percent of Japanese houses are
  labor shortage in 1978. CAD and CAM
  is further added to total system in 1985, then this Timber pre-cut system MPS-1 had changed construction with pre-cut method expanded to 93 percent today. – Aichi Prefecture

• No. 116: Hand-cranked Garabo Spinning Machine.
  National Industrial Exhibition in 1877.^[13] The machine was well evaluated at exhibition, and applied for larger diameter or thicker cotton thread producing, actually machine drive by water wheel, in Mikawa Province where such industry had been leading and became top level of producing area, then machine deployed widely in country. After World War II, lifestyle changed and Western machines again used, because of Gara bo specialized for larger diameter or thicker thread, not for small diameter or thin thread, so that the peak number of machine working was in 1960, several number of machine still working today. Certified machine is made in 1880s, displayed at Mengyo kaikan (ja:綿業会館) in Osaka. Gara bo machine contributed thread spinning industry, yarn export from Japan, and acquisition of foreign currency to Japan. Precise replica is demonstrating at Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya. – Osaka Prefecture

• No. 117: Goto Planetarium Type M-1. German-made projector introduced in Japan in 1937, many astronomer were trying to produce prototype planetarium, and opened its developing history in Japan. GOTO INC (ja:五藤光学研究所) at last developed first lens projection planetarium Type M-1 in 1959, then mass produced and marketed 19 units in Japan. Type M-1 well recognized worldwide, then become foundations of Japanese planetarium and related units gained world market share (approximately 70%), and further realized up to date planetarium functional elements such as lens projection and annual motion projection. Type M-1 installed in Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in 1965, is still operable and maintained by students, also work as study material and technologies continuation for them. – Tokyo

• No. 118: Odakyu Limited Express Romancecar SE3000. Odakyu Electric Railway started express train, named Romancecar, rolling stock with state-of-the-art technology in 1957. SE3000 adapted monocoque shape of front end with extensive wind tunnel experiment, bogie is cardan jointed drive, and jacobs bogie. In developing stage of SE3000, former Research Institute, present Railway Technical Research Institute, cooperatively involved into Odakyu team to get technical data for own higher speed train, obtain valuable data and information, then realized 0 Series Shinkansen later on. The higher speed test with SE3000 on Tōkaidō Main Line in 1957, world record of 145m/h accomplished on Narrow-gauge railway (3 ft 6 in gauge railways), these activities forwarded to successful open Tokaido Shinkansen. Naming Romancecar is given to all Odakyu express trains. SE3000 had retired in 1992, and preserved in Romancecar Museum. – Kanagawa Prefecture

• No. 119: A Pharmaceutial Millstone Driven by a Treadwheel at the former Wachusan Hompo. Head shop
  lit.: man wheel powered drug make machine)) installed in 1831, Edo period Tenpō 2. Two man, in large wooden wheel with diameter of 4280 millimetre, steps forward to generate rotation force and transport to four wooden gears, further speed up rotation to circulate quern-stone to mill process medicinal plants. Rotation ratio of the large wheel and mill quern-stone is 3:10, so that three times rotations at large wheel makes 10 times mill quern-stone rotations. Power transmission mechanism from human power to mechanical is assumed propagated from mainland China
  and indicates histories of development on machine technologies. This drug making process was observe by travelers and worked good advertising media. – Shiga Prefecture

• No. 120: Historical Machine Tools of The SANKYO Machine Tools Museum. SANKYO seisakusho.co opened the museum in factory premises in 2021 Reiwa era 3. 134 units of machine tool, out of total display 137 units, are not Japan made, mainly from United States, and others from Italy, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom, and Germany. These machine tools are lathe, boring machine, milling machining, drilling machine, shaping machine, gear cutting machine, grinding machine and others, produced and functioning in each era or span of time between 17th century, before and after Industrial Revolution, and 20th century. Machine tools were collecting and sorted in era and function basis, be able to study its evolution and progress respectively. Measurement hand tool and cutting tool, and various machine elements in early Shōwa era and its mechanism model are preserved and displayed including Ford Model T produced by machine tool, and early days of historical motor vehicles. – Shizuoka Prefecture

See also

• List of historic mechanical engineering landmarks
• List of historic civil engineering landmarks

References

External links

• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, JSME
• The Mechanical Engineering Heritage