Show MADE USE OF STEAM POWER centuries ago men were familiar with its possibilities but did not develop them A real curiosity in tile lie united states slates patent office Is a working model of the hist first team engine built by a clever inventor named hero a century and a half before christ was as born bom A modern engineer would call it a steam reaction turbine tui bine it conal consists its of a spherical assel vessel pivoted on nn axis asla and supplied with ith team steam through one of tile pivots the steam escapes through bent pipes in opposite alicc lions thus causing the globe to ale va bifero hns the first steam en engi ginver noer blaring lilt upon the idea that the expansive energy of steam could be used for power poci lie he developed a number of oc devices toi for its mechanical amplo eilent one of them ans was a hollow altar altai beneath which a lire fire was built under the altai was vas a vessel containing water n the latter converted into steam opened the he temple doors by b pressure upon a pair p lir of vertical er posts on oil which the doors swung skiing when the tile fire cooled the doors closed automatically the ancients aiK lenta 2000 years and inore ago used steam power for turning spits and various vailous other unimportant purposes but it does not seem heern to have occurred to them thein that this source auice ou ice of energy might be made available for mechanical utilization on a large scale |