Hero of Alexandria

But nothing was too small for Franklin, or for the boy who played idly with the lid of his mother's tea-kettle and almost invented the steam-engine of today, or for Hero of Alexandria, who dreamed a thousand years before its time of the power that was to come.

Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele

Such a man again in an earlier city was Hero of Alexandria, who knew of the power of steam nineteen hundred years before it was first brought into use.

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

(Wikipedia), is named for Hero of Alexandria, a 1st-century Greek mathematician and physicist who described it in his

MAKE Magazine 2010

(Wikipedia), is named for Hero of Alexandria, a 1st-century Greek mathematician and physicist who described it in his

MAKE Magazine 2010