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    Who invented the steam engine?

    Question #43947. Asked by DogRL. (Feb 02 04 4:30 AM)


    mibmob

    		Hero of Alexandria

    Feb 02 04, 4:35 AM
    DogRL

    		What! An esteemed AFT member should make savoury responses to relative newcomers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/hero_of_alexandria.shtml


    Hero of Alexandria's Pneumatica, published in the first century CE, contains descriptions of several steam-driven devices, including a turbine steam engine called an aeolipile. The devices were used mostly to amuse or to impress eg. to open heavy temple doors automatically.



    Feb 02 04, 4:53 AM

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