Steam-foun′tain.
A jet or body of water raised by the pressure of steam upon the surface of the water in a reservoir.
This is shown in the “Spiritalia” of Hero, 150 B. C., in several forms.
The device was a part of the priestly jugglery of the temple.
The fire, being lighted on an altar, heated water in an adjoining chamber; the steam evolved pressed upon the surface of a liquid, oil or wine, and ejected the same by means of pipes hidden within a statue, so as to run out of a flagon in the hand of the figure, and thus pour a libation upon the altar.
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The idea of Hero was revived by
Baptista Porta in 1600;
De Caus (?), in 1620; the
Marquis of
Worcester in 1633;
Savery, in 1698.
See steam-engine.
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