| 单词 | Hero of Alexandria |
| 例句 | Hero of Alexandria, in Egypt, produced the first steam engine when he created the aeolipile, a simple turbine that powered toys, around the year 70 CE. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The steam engine was first developed about 2,000 years ago by Hero of Alexandria. The Future is Complicated 2011-08-31T15:49:16Z In the second century before Christ, Hero of Alexandria had devised steam fountains and steam turbines, but they remained scientific toys, unless for the miracle-working purposes to which legend says that eastern priests adapted them. The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the original Greek. A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science The next Hellenistic source of which we must take note is a fragmentary and almost unintelligible chapter in the works of Hero of Alexandria. On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass The first authentic account of heat or steam engines is found in the "Pneumatica" of Hero of Alexandria, who lived in the second century before Christ. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses More than two thousand years ago Hero of Alexandria produced the first apparatus to which the name of steam-engine could rightly be given. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Hero of Alexandria invented a steam toy—as he who can read his Spiritalia published by the Jesuits in 1693 may learn for himself. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Hero of Alexandria made a machine to be driven by steam. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects Hero of Alexandria, who lived in the first century before Christ, has described to us several bits of machinery which were driven by steam. The Story of Mankind In these experiments, however, Leonardo seems to have advanced little beyond Hero of Alexandria and his steam toy. A History of Science — Volume 2 Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it was first brought into use. The World Set Free He it was who first wrought it so as to be under the useful and entire control of man, from what it was in the time of Hero of Alexandria, about 120 years before Christ. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects |
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