From the Steam Engine Library:
PNEUMATICS
OF
HERO OF ALEXANDRIA
FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK
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[...] Heron of Alexandria was a bad ass (obviously or else he’d been forgotten) Greek mechanical engineer and fabricator who made incredible kinetic devices involving the movement of air, water and steam. (I’ve bloged about him in the past) [...]