what led to a series of mechanical inventions
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is a very wide discipline that, effectively, covers anything that moves. Its breadth is due, in part, from its need to cover the design and manufacture of anything and everything in a moving system.
This ranges from a system's smallest components to the completed, sometimes enormous, machine as a whole. Throughout history some innovations have come to define mechanics as we know it today, the following are no exception.
These engineering innovations range from the any one of the classical 'simple machine' to complex concepts such as flight. This list is far from exhaustive and in no particular order.
1. The Aeolipile Was an Early Steam Reaction Turbine
The Aeolipile was the world's first rotating steam engine or more technically correct, a steam reaction turbine. It was devised by the great Heron of Alexandria in the 1st Century AD and described it in great detail in his book Pneumatica.
This relatively simple device works by heating a reservoir of water within the device to generating steam. The steam is then conducted through one of the copper supports to a pivoted brass sphere.
Once the steam reaches the sphere it escapes through one of two nozzles at the ends of two, small, opposingly pointing arms. The escaping steam generates thrust and causes the sphere to rotate.
The basic principle is simple but the device’s real genius is its bearings. Only one of the supported arms pass steam to the sphere (via a sleeve bearing).
This pushes the sphere against the other supporting ‘solid’ arm that also has a thrust bearing. The solid arm comprises of a conical point that bears against a matching indentation on the surface of the sphere. This combination holds the sphere in place whilst it rotates.
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2. Wheel and Axle - The Powerful Simple Machine
There are very few innovations in mechanical engineering that have had as much influence as the wheel. The modern world would look very different without them.
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