Hero's Fountain
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content: Hero’s Fountain is a classic demonstration of fluid pressure that has long been attributed to Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (ca. 120 B.C.E.). This example came from the University of Virginia.
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content: Ref: Benjamin Silliman, Jr., <i>Principles of Physics, or Natural Philosophy</i> (Philadelphia, 1866), p. 232.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.323380
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content: 323380
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content: 251562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pneumatic apparatus