Aeolipile

[CarlJ55]

get back to the dishes!

[theswedenmovie]

Is it just water in there?

[fehercsongor]

I like how it slowly starts.

[Neutrinoghost]

It's nice to see women in their natural habitat.

[Quinzio]

@Neutrinoghost You said the truth, you bastard.

[cpufightclub]

Wow.

[1foxtrot70]

I have seen programs on PBS in regard to Heron of Alexandria inventions and his steam engine. Too bad the world at that time depended upon human slave labor which was cheap then otherwise, the world would have experienced the industrial revolution 2000 years ago imagine where we would be today!

[beckeradamissimo]

@1foxtrot70 The Romans made much progress even in areas are abundant with slave labor. I will refer you to the Gold and Silver mines, where considerable Hydraulic power had been used. To quote Drachmann (1963:260): "Slave labor was not cheap, and the presence of slaves did not prevent the invention of the watermill, which could be constructed by the means in hand. The construction of the steam engine had to wait until it was possible to make iron pipes and put them together with screws"

[1foxtrot70]

@beckeradamissimo That is interesting.

[steveBB30]

@beckeradamissimo agree slaves would not have been cheep. How did the cost of ownership compare to that of waterwheels and aeolipiles. I'm sure that if the total cost of ownership of aeolipile (of same power) was the lesser after say a year that's what they'd have used. As to not having the tech.. wouldn't lost wax casting in materials like bronze have been up to the job, Panel beating of "domes"& jointing together with rivets/hard soldering available too?

[rweerakkody4565]

my god!!!!!!!!! that is amazing

[1foxtrot70]

add a whistle on each of the jets

[GerbilEssences]

@1foxtrot70 That would rule ;)

[jack9102]

pointless ignition on the stove

[bazengao]

its a very nice spinning tomato!

[FireDropTechnologies]

The original form of this engine was for one use and one use only.

The tubes at the end where fited as wistles and they where in watch towers,

If at night or by day a clear and audible warning could be swiftly sent , with said steam sieren.

[OmegaWolf747]

Wasn't that thing made to be a children's toy originally? Talk about dangerous.

[Enking]

Herón de Alejandría ^^

[sepdet13]

Wonderful project! Very fun to see something we read about in dusty old classics books come to life!

[steveBB30]

I do ike much that Jung says but I think he's wrong on this (and should have stuck to pyscology)...

I recon the Greeks/Romans did a something like a comparison between costs of running an Aeolipile, and those of other technologies like slave/animal labour. Few people/industries are going to take a pricer option.

It was only when wages rose above that of buying fuel that the industral revolution happened

[keytoothed]

The Roman​s were famil​iar with all the mecha​nical princ​iples and physi​cal facts which would have enabl​ed them to const​ruct a steam engin​e, but all that came of it was the toy made by Hero of Alexa​ndria​. The reaso​n for this is that there was no compe​lling neces​sity to go furth​er.​--C.G. Jung