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    Aeolipile or Hero's Engine

    Sometimes you get an idea in your head and mine was to make a Heron of Alexandria Steam Engine. Heron’s Aeolipile reaction steam engine from circa 10–70 AD is just an interesting toy. But maybe it inspired a few people on the 2000 year timeline of engines?



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    My version here...

    The toilet steam engine

    My (then young) daughters asked where I got the globe used as a boiler. I told them I took it out of the toilet. From then on, it was, for them, the toilet engine.

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    Aeolipile or Hero's Engine-heron-06.jpg

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    maybe "War of the Worlds" - what do you think?

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    I love it ! Maybe a shorter three-legged alcohol burner that mirrors the shape under it. Mother "creature" and offspring ?
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    the final engine



    what do you think?

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    Heron would be proud to know that his invention is still produced and enjoyed two millenia later. You have a real talent for artistic presentation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    Heron would be proud to know that his invention is still produced and enjoyed two millenia later. You have a real talent for artistic presentation.
    thank you, very kind

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    I like it!!

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    I've had a lot of interest in this little engine and so thought I would talk you through the design, hope this is of some interest and use


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    More importantly, the Aeolipile is proof that Heron understood both the idea that steam can provide mechanical power and the notion of action/reaction evident in the device's jets. And all this in the first century AD.

    He lived in Alexandria so there's a good chance his writings were in the library. Had the dumbass Romans not burned it, we might know today that he thought of the basic idea of a steam engine - steam pushing on a piston which then pushed on some mechanism to perform a task.
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