Aeolipile
a round vessel caused to rotate by the force of tangentially escaping steam: an early example of jet propulsion.
a device for injecting the vapors of heated alcohol into a laboratory furnace.
historical examples
another orifice in the aeolipile was fitted with a reed, so that the steam going through it imitated the song of a bird.
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the verbiest model was for a four-wheeled carriage, on which an aeolipile was mounted with a pan of burning coals beneath it.
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some late authors have discovered the extraordinary use to which the frauds of the heathen priesthood applied the aeolipile, viz.
the mirror of literature, amus-m-nt, and instruction various
noun
a device ill-strating the reactive forces of a gas jet: usually a spherical vessel mounted so as to rotate and equipped with angled exit pipes from which steam within it escapes
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