Aug 17, 2020 11:35 PM
LogicDude
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steam_engine
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MayYourFaceChipAndShatter
If you need this, check out pop pop boats.
atalleywak5
I wonder how long it takes for the water to boil off, and if that time changes if size is scaled up. Might be impractical if it goes quick.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
cyno01
Slaves are cheaper.
PhugoidVortex
Ahh the Hero's turbine. The Romans invented it as a toy and never understood it's potential.
bennyng110
replace water with lighter fluid
LosPer
Goddamn I always wanted my own mini Bunsen burner!
TessaDanger
Cool squeaky fire machine my dude
MikeKeyser
It's a steam engine that Heron of Alexandria designed. He's an inspiration of mine
oilgod
Why not fill the spinny thing with gasoline and light the vapor coming out the arms?
odiedaddy
What kind of heartless bastard downvotes this?
BSwann
One with ears
WaitUmmmWhat
It sounds like what happens as I clinch ass speed walk to the bathroom. praying to lord the sounds the only thing slipping past my o-ring.
conklin5
That is wonderfully or frighteningly specific.
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
Balls out
nein999
RabidDingo
I do a similar thing with an air compressor and a tennis ball.
HaniiPuppy
It's called an aeolipile.
Zapathasura
Hero would be proud.
TheHorseShesElbowDeepIn
v
HurricaneShade
Finally.. A Hero boiler
phillybits
Hero's Engine - made one for a science fair in 8th grade. Beat out the whole school, then the region, won $100, got a medal, made the paper
SirBobby98121
Hero's engine.
dwk23
Anyone remember this thing from the Wishbone Odyssey PC game?
unsatisfyedGamer
Reminds me the Inception movie
crusadurus
It was simply water that was added right? Thats pretty cool.
ramadanjuan
Sounds like it has a bad timing belt.
LionsDragon
Reminds me of this holiday ornament my mom had. Light the candles on the bottom; heat rises and makes figures rotate and strike bells.
odinsleep
there seems to be water and water vapour leaking from those 3 bent tubes
SirSpendersHoldenuppdepanse
Immediately thought of the kids boat from Ponyo
mercbrit
I am sure I have seen one of these that actually uses the power to run a dynamo to charge your phone. I may have dreamed that tho’
lilEinsteinandtheOverStimulatedProstates
https://www.bioliteenergy.com Close but not maybe not quite what you dreamed
causality
Yeah, and peltier cells to convert directly to electricity. Absolute fucking garbage efficiency though.
LittleDragon
steam engine
s1yb00ts
I found it but the link is too long. Dm me if you have interest. $56 USD pretax.
ShanghaisFamousLittleDublinDistrict
It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven tops...
samplesforyou
Hero's Engine
lurkerevolutioncomplete
lordofthedice
Fucking love this movie.
sirspaceship
what movie is this from?
Atlantis
HommeDeFeu
Didn't the ancient Romans have similar steam engines that they used at parties to entertain guests???
IWantACleverUsername
Yes but their ones ran dynamos that charged phones.
kawkamawaq
The Greeks had a bull that is pure nightmare fuel.
Fennecks
Read up on the inventor of the brazen bull, you’ll find out he was the very first test subject in a fucked up way ;3
FrogBotherer
TOOLfan303
No that's one of those people that diddle little boys
dragonqueen248
No that's a pedophile. An aeliopile is a person who loves fire.
BeanDaddy4
No thats a pyromaniac. What you're thinking of is an enclosed pressurized substance that can be released as a fine spray.
awildcharmander
No that's aerosol, I think what they meant was the outer part of the nipple
LaBix
A "hero turbine.
ClemClone
Greeks actually
yomahnn
Romans and Greeks were the same people for quite a while
justadudewholovescats
when?
Depends on how you what to look at it but at least from the Battle of Actium (31 BC) until well after 330 AD. Look up Greco-Roman empire
TotallyNotASnail
And then, like always, the Romans stole it
Fasrill
And it was viewed more as a kid's toy than anything.
That's probably true, hell the Romans took Greek gods and just renamed them.
strideo
Then the Greeks took over management of the Roman Empire after the fall of Rome.
Scambone
Egyptians
DrLOAC
If they weren’t considered novelties & combined them with the gearing in the Antikythera mechanism they could’ve had steam power by 150AD
viila
Unfortunately slaves were cheaper.
StonesOnTheHill
Mining and metal processing hadn't caught up yet tho. They couldn't make anything big and powerful enough to utilize it fully.
kahlzun
But when slave labour is so cheap, why bother? Noone cared about engines until we found a problem muscles couldn't solve: flooded mines.
ZachariasWolfe
Now hold on just a minute. You could totally solve that with more muscle, especially slave muscle. It's just wayyyy more expensive.
BigTex1
Exactly. Just keep sending the slaves in until they displace all of the water.
And then send even more slaves to drag all the dead ones back out.
JoggingWithForks
An aeolipile, deviced by Hero of Alexandria. The fastest man-made object on earth for nearly 2000 years prior to the industrial revolution.
regregex
Except arrows, slingshots, things dropped off cliffs...
They don't necessarily rotate, do they? It's fairly obvious that we're talking about rotational speed here, given the nature of the device.
Wrong.
Ok, then provide a link showing a pre industrial age bow&arrow, slingshot or manmade object dropped off cliff rotating faster than 1500 rpm.
No buddy... 'fastest man-made object on earth' means linear speed, even next to a picture of a rotor. Anyway, whips are supersonic.
ReverseSyzygy
please define "fastest" and metric, because I highly doubt that.
Fastest rotating*. About 1500 rpm.
RPMs? Doubt that too considering bow drills were used for firestarting thousands of years earlier. Probably something over specific...
About 1500 rpm, significantly faster than any bow drill.
What about a mammoth rolling down hill?
Since when are mammoth's man-made? At 1500 rpm the centrifugal force would tear the animal to pieces. I can't tell if you're being serious.
MayYourFaceChipAndShatter
If you need this, check out pop pop boats.
atalleywak5
I wonder how long it takes for the water to boil off, and if that time changes if size is scaled up. Might be impractical if it goes quick.
GemsAreOutrageousTrulyTrulyTrulyOutrageous
cyno01
Slaves are cheaper.
PhugoidVortex
Ahh the Hero's turbine. The Romans invented it as a toy and never understood it's potential.
bennyng110
replace water with lighter fluid
LosPer
Goddamn I always wanted my own mini Bunsen burner!
TessaDanger
Cool squeaky fire machine my dude
MikeKeyser
It's a steam engine that Heron of Alexandria designed. He's an inspiration of mine
oilgod
Why not fill the spinny thing with gasoline and light the vapor coming out the arms?
odiedaddy
What kind of heartless bastard downvotes this?
BSwann
One with ears
WaitUmmmWhat
It sounds like what happens as I clinch ass speed walk to the bathroom. praying to lord the sounds the only thing slipping past my o-ring.
conklin5
That is wonderfully or frighteningly specific.
JuliusPepperwoodFromChicago
Balls out
nein999
RabidDingo
I do a similar thing with an air compressor and a tennis ball.
HaniiPuppy
It's called an aeolipile.
Zapathasura
Hero would be proud.
TheHorseShesElbowDeepIn
HurricaneShade
Finally.. A Hero boiler
phillybits
Hero's Engine - made one for a science fair in 8th grade. Beat out the whole school, then the region, won $100, got a medal, made the paper
SirBobby98121
Hero's engine.
dwk23
Anyone remember this thing from the Wishbone Odyssey PC game?
unsatisfyedGamer
Reminds me the Inception movie
crusadurus
It was simply water that was added right? Thats pretty cool.
ramadanjuan
Sounds like it has a bad timing belt.
LionsDragon
Reminds me of this holiday ornament my mom had. Light the candles on the bottom; heat rises and makes figures rotate and strike bells.
odinsleep
there seems to be water and water vapour leaking from those 3 bent tubes
SirSpendersHoldenuppdepanse
Immediately thought of the kids boat from Ponyo
mercbrit
I am sure I have seen one of these that actually uses the power to run a dynamo to charge your phone. I may have dreamed that tho’
lilEinsteinandtheOverStimulatedProstates
https://www.bioliteenergy.com Close but not maybe not quite what you dreamed
causality
Yeah, and peltier cells to convert directly to electricity. Absolute fucking garbage efficiency though.
LittleDragon
s1yb00ts
I found it but the link is too long. Dm me if you have interest. $56 USD pretax.
ShanghaisFamousLittleDublinDistrict
It only took me like, what? Ten seconds? Eleven tops...
samplesforyou
Hero's Engine
lurkerevolutioncomplete
lordofthedice
Fucking love this movie.
sirspaceship
what movie is this from?
LittleDragon
Atlantis
HommeDeFeu
Didn't the ancient Romans have similar steam engines that they used at parties to entertain guests???
IWantACleverUsername
Yes but their ones ran dynamos that charged phones.
kawkamawaq
The Greeks had a bull that is pure nightmare fuel.
Fennecks
Read up on the inventor of the brazen bull, you’ll find out he was the very first test subject in a fucked up way ;3
FrogBotherer
It's called an aeolipile.
TOOLfan303
No that's one of those people that diddle little boys
dragonqueen248
No that's a pedophile. An aeliopile is a person who loves fire.
BeanDaddy4
No thats a pyromaniac. What you're thinking of is an enclosed pressurized substance that can be released as a fine spray.
awildcharmander
No that's aerosol, I think what they meant was the outer part of the nipple
LaBix
A "hero turbine.
ClemClone
Greeks actually
yomahnn
Romans and Greeks were the same people for quite a while
justadudewholovescats
when?
yomahnn
Depends on how you what to look at it but at least from the Battle of Actium (31 BC) until well after 330 AD. Look up Greco-Roman empire
TotallyNotASnail
And then, like always, the Romans stole it
Fasrill
And it was viewed more as a kid's toy than anything.
HommeDeFeu
That's probably true, hell the Romans took Greek gods and just renamed them.
strideo
Then the Greeks took over management of the Roman Empire after the fall of Rome.
Scambone
Egyptians
DrLOAC
If they weren’t considered novelties & combined them with the gearing in the Antikythera mechanism they could’ve had steam power by 150AD
viila
Unfortunately slaves were cheaper.
StonesOnTheHill
Mining and metal processing hadn't caught up yet tho. They couldn't make anything big and powerful enough to utilize it fully.
kahlzun
But when slave labour is so cheap, why bother? Noone cared about engines until we found a problem muscles couldn't solve: flooded mines.
ZachariasWolfe
Now hold on just a minute. You could totally solve that with more muscle, especially slave muscle. It's just wayyyy more expensive.
BigTex1
Exactly. Just keep sending the slaves in until they displace all of the water.
Fasrill
And then send even more slaves to drag all the dead ones back out.
JoggingWithForks
An aeolipile, deviced by Hero of Alexandria. The fastest man-made object on earth for nearly 2000 years prior to the industrial revolution.
regregex
Except arrows, slingshots, things dropped off cliffs...
JoggingWithForks
They don't necessarily rotate, do they? It's fairly obvious that we're talking about rotational speed here, given the nature of the device.
regregex
Wrong.
JoggingWithForks
Ok, then provide a link showing a pre industrial age bow&arrow, slingshot or manmade object dropped off cliff rotating faster than 1500 rpm.
regregex
No buddy... 'fastest man-made object on earth' means linear speed, even next to a picture of a rotor. Anyway, whips are supersonic.
ReverseSyzygy
please define "fastest" and metric, because I highly doubt that.
JoggingWithForks
Fastest rotating*. About 1500 rpm.
cyno01
RPMs? Doubt that too considering bow drills were used for firestarting thousands of years earlier. Probably something over specific...
JoggingWithForks
About 1500 rpm, significantly faster than any bow drill.
cyno01
What about a mammoth rolling down hill?
JoggingWithForks
Since when are mammoth's man-made? At 1500 rpm the centrifugal force would tear the animal to pieces. I can't tell if you're being serious.