February 2nd, 2004, 12:25 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Re: Long Range Scaners
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a pre-industrial scientist, but not to pre-industrial, might have been able to put the escaping steam together with the heat of the boiler and guess that the steam was exerting pressure to move the train.
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Hero of Alexandria {link} build a toy steam engine in the first century AD.
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