液壓傳動相對于機械傳動來說是一門新技術.但從1650年巴斯卡提出靜壓傳遞原理，1795年英國的約瑟夫。布拉獄利用這一原理在英國制成世界上靠前臺水壓機.使液壓技術開始進入工程優(yōu)先城算起，已有二三百年歷史了。到了20世紀30年代才較普遍地用于起重機、機床及工程機械，近代液壓傳動在工業(yè)上的真正推廣使用只是20世紀中葉以后的事，至于它和微電子技術密切結合，得以在盡可能小的空間內傳遞出盡可能大的功率井加以稍確控制，更是近20年內才出現(xiàn)的新事物。

Hydraulic transmission is a new technology compared with mechanical transmission, but the principle of static pressure transmission was proposed by baska in 1650 and Joseph in England in 1795. Burrow used this principle to make the world's first hydraulic press in Britain. It has been two or three hundred years since hydraulic technology began to enter the engineering field. In the 1930 s is widely used in crane, machine tools and engineering machinery, the really promote the use of modern hydraulic transmission in industry just after the middle of the 20th century, for it is combined with microelectronics technology closely, as much as possible to deliver within as little space as possible power well big slightly control truly, but also the new things of nearly 20 years to appear.