A couple of plans from Hero of Alexandria. In each, an animal is given the appearance of life (in the first case singing birds, in the second, drinking water) by the use of pneumatics.
A couple of plans from Hero of Alexandria. In each, an animal
is given the appearance of life (in the first case singing birds,
in the second, drinking water) by the use of pneumatics.
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| A working replica
of one of Hero's devices in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli, Italy. |
Parts from Hero's devices recovered from archaeological digs. | |
Refer to the
online index for details or borrow Hero's 'Pneumatics' from the library
and read it on the bus.