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Meaning of eolípila



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

eolípila
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It is a type of sphere or rotating cylinder that is driven by the regulated expulsion of steam by tubes. It was regarded as a toy. It was invented by the Greek Heron of Alexandria in the first century.

  



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Felipe Lorenzo del Río

From the Greek aiolos, fast, agile and pyle, door. Thermal machine created by the first-century Greek mathematician Heron of Alexandria not studied until modernity, an antecedent of the steam engine.

  










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