This book is the first volume of a two-volume work, which is an improved version of a preprint [47] published in German. We seek to deduce the funda- mental concepts of quantum mechanics solely from a description of macroscopic devices. The microscopic systems such as electrons, atoms, etc. must be detected on the basis of the macroscopic behavior of the devices. This detection resembles the detection of the dinosaurs on the basis offossils. In this...