Thought for the day. In the first century AD, Hero of Alexandria, a genius engineer of Greek descent, created the aeolipile - a rudimentary steam engine. Had anyone at the time grasped the full implications of this toy, the industrial revolution would have taken place in Hellenic Egypt, rather than nearly two thousand years later in 18th century England. Hero also invented the wind turbine, the cuckoo clock, vending machines, robots and we calculate the area of a triangle using his formula.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 21:19:37 +0000
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