Aeolipile - The FIRST Engine Ever MADE!

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Жыл бұрын

Let's take a look at the Aeolipile, otherwise known as the Hero motor. It is a simple, bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated. Torque is produced by steam jets exiting the turbine.
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@maurizioibba869 Жыл бұрын

This is so charming to whatch. Thanks for sharing it. I never saw one like this before, a very similar to this one is the Stirling engine, but this is also very aesthetic and seems running at higher rpm than the Stirling.

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I try to find the more unique motors/engines and this one is a very efficient variant.

@JohnV170 10 ай бұрын

It would be cool to see someone try to make a simple generator out of this using similar materials they had back then just to see what they could have done with it if history went different.

@human_isomer Жыл бұрын

So interestingly, jet propulsion was invented before the internal combustion engine.

@1TakoyakiStore Жыл бұрын

Technically flying squid have been utilizing jet propulsion to fly for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years. 👀

@human_isomer Жыл бұрын

@@1TakoyakiStore however, this wasn't what would be called an "invention".

@ianstobie Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they didn't come up with a musical version. The ancient Greeks had various reed and pipe instruments, including the pan pipes and the Aulos, a kind of twin flute requiring more skill. The pan pipes were made from a series of reed tubes, and don't need a mouthpiece or much air pressure to activate. A musical device acting autonomously might have had some use to priests and cults. You could set the thing up to wail away and then get awestruck or intoxicated in some appropriately cultic way!

@erwinresearch9224 5 ай бұрын

Great! I love these constructions

@chadlymath Жыл бұрын

I feel like writing a sci fi what if a motorized society began in the 1st & 2nd century.

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

That would be neat, just to think there was a motor all the way back then is fascinating.

@glyph241 Жыл бұрын

I’d read it! 📖🐛

@nameless5512 8 ай бұрын

Such a little mechanism had the ability to power the world, yet it was viewed as a novelty.

@enginediy Жыл бұрын

Interesting Engine

@totalt6600 Жыл бұрын

Something 50 times larger changed the world,and continues to do so.

@moonfther Жыл бұрын

very cool! wonder if you could boil the water to steam using the sun rays through a fresnel lens

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

Perhaps? It would have to be quite large though.

@thetroll1247 Жыл бұрын

@@Tech_Planet wouldn't think.

@KontaxEngineeringLtd Жыл бұрын

Nice video :)

@farzammortazavi7512 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. Aelopile is a steam engine.

@MichaelWilson-sn1yo Жыл бұрын

I wonder if you made a larger version of that, could it turn a generator? I've got an old stainless beer keg and an alternator.

@ronarmstrong835 11 ай бұрын

I think this could be redesigned into a practical steam engine.

@oliverf.rupert5408 Жыл бұрын

Lol Bro Steam engines help map the country. Cool vide🚂

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@bnjdc007 8 ай бұрын

Is it just a straight hole coming through the top from the inside of the bowl you never showed the inside of the bowls

@costrio Жыл бұрын

If they had a shaft going through the top and addea a screw gear they could have made fan for the pharaoh/king but it would have to be bigger and the friction would use up all the energy. Just sayin...

@lwoodt1 Жыл бұрын

How many rpm will the motor turn.

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

I will measure it soon, let you know!

@lwoodt1 Жыл бұрын

@@Tech_Planet Thank you

@busterhyman103 Жыл бұрын

Not a MOTOR rather it is an ENGINE. ( south Florida )

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

Actually not, this uses external combustion.

@busterhyman103 Жыл бұрын

@@everettstormyEngine: A system for converting thermal power into mechanical output or power to generate force and motion

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

@@busterhyman103 ight cool

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

@@busterhyman103 explain motorcycles smart boi

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

Yes, engine can more broad then ICE so I changed title.

@Kalami.Anghami Жыл бұрын

Environment friendly

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

Actually it totally could be. Using mirrors to heat it and taking the rotation to power a water pump that brings new water into the system. Then condense the steam and use it for drinking water. If you had a scraper inside the spinning dome to collect the salt you could use that as well lol

@bartoszbarejko1585 6 ай бұрын

It must be reversed Steem from outside to the iside it is very simple...

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

People who like this video should read the ice breaker trilogy. Is about these people who live on an ice breaker that has been circling Antarctica for the last 200 years because they are hiding from the anti machinists, people who hate machines and destroy anything mechanical. On the ice breaker there is all this machinery they talk about to keep everything rrunning. Also because they have been on this one ship for so long they use a strange dialect and have different factions that get In fights and stuff. It's an easy and short but super engaging read

@bradpitts289 Жыл бұрын

Yha so what can we do with it. Because we should be way past the steam engine. By now...

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

Actually steam in super helpful. Even nuclear power plants run on steam.

@Tech_Planet Жыл бұрын

@@everettstormy Exactly, steam turbine supplement most of the power grid. The question is what is beyond and can directly transfer thermal/light energy.

@Thrashaero Жыл бұрын

@@Tech_Planet argent energy. but then all hell breaks loose

@everettstormy Жыл бұрын

@@Thrashaero lmao, quantum expulsion. That what heron was trying to make. Sadly he slightly miscalculated and made this little toy.