2. Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont
1553-1613 (SPAIN)
Scientist, musician,
painter,
astronomer,soldier...
Constructed and
patented 48
inventions
His most important
invention was the
steam machine
3. Steam machine history
HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
1st Century A.D. (Greece)
REIMS CATHEDRAL ORGAN
XII Century
JAMES WATT
1769 (ENGLAND)
NEWCOMEN
1712 (ENGLAND)
JERONIMO DE AYANZ
1606 (SPAIN)
EDWARD SOMERSET
1663 (ENGLAND)
PAPIN
1680 (FRANCE)
LEIBNIZ
1705 (GERMANY)
THOMAS SAVERY
1698 (ENGLAND)
4. AEOLIPILA
A fire beneath the
cauldron boils water,
producing steam which is
conducted through one of
the copper supports to the
pivoted brass sphere. This
steam issues from nozzles
at the ends of the two
small opposing arms on
the sphere causing it to
rotate.