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The authors acknowledge many of the mentors that they had the privilege to work with: the already mentioned Prof. Nicola Nervegna, Prof. Gian Luca Zarotti, Jarmo Harsia, and Leslie Claar. More importantly, the authors firmly believe that this book would have never come to life if it had not been for Prof. Monika Ivantysynova. Both authors admired her passion and talent for fluid power research and credit her with many of the successes in their careers and personal lives. It is also thanks to her that both authors had the chance to reconnect in the USA.

The writing of the book involved also two co‐authors who were very helpful in the development of some chapters. Gabriele Altare was part of the initial team and provided a tremendous support in the illustrations and writing of Chapters 4 and 5–9, while Lizhi Shang was instrumental in the chapter dedicated to hydrostatic pumps and motors (see chapter 6).

The authors' work was reviewed by several people: the graduate students of the Maha Fluid Power Research Center (class of 2019), Pradeep Gillella, Barun Acharya, and other members of Parker Hannifin, who all provided tremendous help with chapter reviews and suggestions for improvement.

Finally, both authors want to give a special thanks to their loving wives, Jing and Sarah, who supported us during this multiple years' journey and accepted us being away from home on numerous weekends.