is fast supplanting that of water in many places. Some years ago it would have been thought insane, in a business point of view, fc propose a steam engine for driving the machinery of almost any ...

Heron, the great inventor of Alexandria, described in detail what is thought to be the first working steam engine. He called it an aeolipile, or "wind ball". His design was a sealed caldron of water ...

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

The device under test is a Hero’s Engine, otherwise known as an aeolipile. This consists of a hollow sphere filled with water, fitted with a series of nozzles that shoot out steam when the ...

The up and down motion of the piston in the cylinder is transmitted by the beam to the piston in the water pump. The steam cylinder piston goes down under the pressure of steam and differences in ...