追溯一个国家科学研究机构的发展轨迹，可以窥见这个国家不同时期的政治、经济状况和科学技术发展水平。本文对解放前中国机械科研机构的萌芽与发展历程进行了简要回顾与剖析。解放前中国机械科研机构的萌芽1840年鸦片战争以后，在资本主义入侵势力的影响下，在洋务运动和维新 Tracing the development track of a national scientific research institution can reveal the political and economic conditions and the level of scientific and technological development in this country in different periods. This article briefly reviews and analyzes the process of the sprout and development of Chinese machinery research institutions before liberation. Before the liberation of China's mechanical research institutions of the sprout In 1840 after the Opium War, under the influence of capitalism invaded forces in the Westernization Movement and Reform