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Ancient Aeolipile -steam engine, and magnets for good measure…

The first steam engine was invented by Herron of Alexandria around 150BC (actual date is unknown — that whole Alexandrian library arson thing :/ and books disagree on dates). The history channel (or was it discovery) called this person Mechanos - I’m not sure where that name came from, but it fits :P



So basically, it is a sealed pressure vessel with steam outlets. Hot steam is pumped in (or generated within) and the steam outlets provide a torque based on their perpendicular component to the radius of rotation. You also need some sort of bearing to allow for rotation ;)



Well, pressure vessel could be a fancy name for soda can….



You’ll need:

1 Un-opened soda (or other) can

A few feet of fishing line or other thing string

Awl or other hole punching device

4 tea lights

Two magnets and two ball bearings :P



Videos on steps 1 and 3 ;)


By: trebuchet03

Steam Powered Row Boat

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Hacked Gadgets has a great link to a steam powered row boat:
“This Steam Powered Rowboat is a work in progress, it will be quite interesting when it is done. Here are a few videos of the creation in action.
Video 1
Video 2
The creator was recently on Tech Now showing off how he hacks […]

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