Although Hero thought the device only a novelty, the concept remains: use combustion to produce heat, transfer the heat to water, boil the water to generate steam and transfer its energy into a mechanical force Porta's Pump Giovanni Battista della Porta, mathematician, and chemist, and prolific inventor.Described a device capable of raising water using steam.
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