February 2nd, 2004, 06:30 PM
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Re: Long Range Scaners
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Originally posted by capnq:
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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.
hmm...for some reason, his name makes me feel more sceptical.
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