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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Article on Hero of Alexandria & video of aeolipile

Heron of Alexandria's original steam turbine
The io9.com site featured a nice summary of the work of Hero of Alexandria earlier this week. Among his many inventions were sophisticated automta and a steam engine known as an 'aeolipile' -- a modern version of which is shown here. The post also shows a nice video of a recreated version of Hero's steam engine.

Here is the article on The Greek engineer who invented the steam engine 2,000 years ago at io9.com.

Here is were you can learn more about the beautiful steam turbine model shown above.

[ Thanks Julia! ]

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3 comments:

  1. RobbieJanuary 30, 2011 at 5:47 AM

    That is one simple & gorgeous little machine.

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  2. Falk KeutenJanuary 30, 2011 at 11:24 AM

    Hi Dug,
    a must-see related to this topic is the wonderful 50min video docu I posted in my blog the 1.Jan.11, http://kugelbahn.blog.de/ :

    http://www.babelgum.com/3017461/ancient-discoveries-robotics-episode-3.html

    Enjoying all the automata enthusiasts
    wit the best wishes
    Falk

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  3. Dug NorthJanuary 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM

    Wonderful! Thanks Falk!

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