Definition of Aeolepyle
{ Æ*ol"i*pile, Æ*ol"i*pyle } (&?;),
n. [L. aeolipilae; Aeolus god of the winds
+ pila a ball, or Gr. &?; gate (i. e., doorway of
Æolus); cf. F. éolipyle.] An apparatus consisting
chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more
projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel,
causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]
&fist; Such an apparatus was first described by Hero of Alexandria about
200 years b. c. It has often been called the first steam engine.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- an instrument used to demonstrate the force at which heated vapour escapes from a vessel through a narow aperture
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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