Aeolipile
name: label: user
content: The Rayen School
label: maker
content: Central Scientific Company
notes: label: Description
content: The aeolipile, as described by Hero of Alexandria in the first century C.E., is a simple engine that spins when the water it contains is heated. In time, it would be seen as a precursor of the steam engine. The “Cenco” inscription on this example refers to the Central Scientific Company in Chicago.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hamilton L. Smith, <i>Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies</i> (New York, 1852), p. 157.
label: Description
content: C. Martin, “The aeolipile as experimental model in early modern natural Philosophy,” <i>Perspectives on Science</i> 24 (2016): 264-284.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: used
content: United States: Ohio, Youngstown
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard J. Zitto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0235.34
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0235.34
label: accession number
content: 2010.0235
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Aeolipile
label: Object Name
content: aeolipile
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 19 cm; 7 15/32 in x 7 15/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 16.51 cm x 8.89 cm