The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (Registro nro. 118120)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | QC |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hero, of Alexandria |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Pneumatica. English |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria |
| 246 1# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Inventions of the ancients : Hero of Alexandria |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-12-04 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, A Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria" by of Alexandria Hero is an ancient engineering treatise written in the Hellenistic period. It surveys the behavior of air and fluids and applies those principles to ingenious devices—siphons, pumps, fountains, automata, sound-making figures, and early steam-driven demonstrations—often designed for temples, spectacle, and practical use.<br/><br/>The opening of the treatise presents an editor’s and a translator’s prefaces explaining why a new translation was made, the uncertainties around the author’s date and originality (versus Ctesibius), the state of manuscripts, and earlier editions. The text then launches into a clear exposition on the nature of air, void, and compression, arguing from everyday experiments (inverted vessels, cupping glasses, and suction) that practical vacuums can be made and that air is elastic. From there it quickly moves into numbered propositions: varieties of siphons (including enclosed and constant-flow versions), tools for priming siphons, globes and jars that release or retain liquids on command, vessels mixing hot/cold water or wine/water in set ratios, sound devices (whistling birds, trumpets, temple-door effects), coin-activated and temple libation tricks, constant-level cups, and demonstrations using compressed air. It culminates in early hydraulic machinery, including a compressed-air water jet, a valve design, and the beginnings of a fire pump, showing how the theory is turned into repeatable mechanisms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Taylor Walton and Maberly, 1851 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Inventions -- History |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Discoveries in science -- History |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Pneumatics |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Woodcroft, Bennet, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1803-1879 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Greenwood, Joseph George, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1821-1894 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006409984">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006409984</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77400">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77400</a> |
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