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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.

  




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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