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The world’s first steam turbine was created in the 1st century AD by Hero of Alexandria. In his book Pneumatica, the aeolipile was described as a hollow sphere mounted to turn on a pair of hollow tubes that pushed steam into the sphere from a cauldron below, causing it to revolve. The aeolipile is the first known device to transform steam into rotary motion, and it was used as little more than a party trick. Two millennia passed before the idea of steam power would finally connect to functional industrial use with a practical steam turbine.
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Michael Bala
Eli Coplan
Kelsey Isaacs
Nandi Loaf
Gedi Sibony
Richard Sides
Johnathan Wilborn
Terry Winters
The world’s first steam turbine was created in the 1st century AD by Hero of Alexandria. In his book Pneumatica, the aeolipile was described as a hollow sphere mounted to turn on a pair of hollow tubes that pushed steam into the sphere from a cauldron below, causing it to revolve. The aeolipile is the first known device to transform steam into rotary motion, and it was used as little more than a party trick. Two millennia passed before the idea of steam power would finally connect to functional industrial use with a practical steam turbine.
The systems that govern how we live are vast, intricate, and resistant to mastery. While the artist is not a...More
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