Although the machines powered with steam engines and the engines themselves do not reach the S XVIII, and are the engines that give rise to the first industrial revolution catapulting our roads and civilization hitherto unimaginable speeds, the first steam engine long before history was born to be, unfortunately, soon forgotten. The child's father was Hero, a Greek engineer who lives in the then Alejadría (Egypt) who lived between the years 10 to 70 of our calendar, and the creature is none other than the Eolípia whose name is formed by the Latin words "Aeolian" and "stack" that led to our English would be something like "ball of Aeolus" in honor of the god of wind.
Heron of Alexandria
The aeolipile is considered the precursor wit steam turbine, the gimmick, as deduced from the picture below is a closed water tank heated by fire and communicates through two tubes with a ball or hollow metal ball, and these pipes come through the side of the ball serving rotational axis and out to the outside of the ball on opposite sides thereof forming an angle of 90 º with the shaft, the end of the tubes is in two reverse bends, so that when one looks at one point, the other does, to a location opposite. When you heat the water tank and boils, the steam rises through pipes to the ball and comes out through the elbow terminators to produce the rotational movement of the area under the reactive force of steam.
The aeolipile
The following video we see a home experiment that continues to be a rudimentary aeolipile:
Indeed, the invention of an internal combustion engine was 17 centuries before the scientific community knew what to do. Still have to appreciate that this man had to guess the "laws of action and reaction" Newton and were not enacted until S. XVII.
a shame that after all this worthwhile effort, no one knew what to do with the talent and were reduced to a curiosity and a toy ... Who knows where striated now if the industrial revolution had started 21 centuries ago rather than for three.
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