Timeline of steam power
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 17th century, to useful pumps for mining in 1700, and then to Watt's improved steam engine designs in the late 18th century. It is these later designs, introduced just when the need for practical power was growing due to the Industrial Revolution, that truly made steam power commonplace.
Development phases
Early examples
- Circa 30-20 BC – Vitruvius provides the earliest known description of an aeolipile in his work de Architectura, noting hollow bronze vessels that, when water within boils, emit a “violent wind”.[1]
- 1st century AD – Hero of Alexandria describes an aeolipile, as an example of the power of heated air or water. The device consists of a rotating ball spun by steam jets; it produced little power but is nevertheless the first known device moved by steam pressure. He also describes a way of transferring water from one vessel to another using pressure. The methods involved filling a bucket, the weight of which worked tackle to open temple doors, which were then closed again by a deadweight once the water in the bucket had been drawn out by a vacuum caused by cooling of the initial vessel.
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- Late 15th century AD: Leonardo Da Vinci described the Architonnerre, a steam-powered cannon.[3]
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Development of a practical steam engine
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The Newcomen Engine: Steam power in practice
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Watt's engine
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Improving power
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- Steam turbines are made to 1,500 MW (2,000,000 hp) to generate electricity.[15]
See also
- Steam engine
- Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
- Maritime timeline
- Timeline of heat engine technology
Notes
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- ↑ Young, Robert: "Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive"; the Book guild Ltd, Lewes, UK (2000) (reprint of 1923 ed.)
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- ↑ "World's First Steam Driven Airplane" Popular Science, July 1933, detailed article with drawings
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- ↑ Copied from Wikipedia Steam turbine. See that article for references. Retrieved Aug 24, 2021
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External links
- The Growth of the Steam Engine
- Alternative timeline: If electric generators & motors had preceded steam
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