Hero of Alexandria
Greek invention pioneer
Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who lived in Roman Egypt around the first century CE.
He invented mechanical devices including an early steam engine (the aeolipus), automatic doors, and a wind-powered organ.
His writings on geometry, mechanics, and optics influenced later scientists.
Sometimes called Heron of Alexandria.
- ancient GreekOld, from Hellas
- automatonSelf-moving mechanical device
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- mechanicsScience of motion
simple machines · inventor · pneumatics · wind power · gears · ancient · Greek · engineer · temple · doors · holy water · vending machine · fountains · siphon · lever · pulley · mirrors · geometry
- Greek scienceAristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, Ptolemy, Hippocrates
- ancient AlexandriaSerapeum, Ptolemy, Cleopatra, Euclid, Eratosthenes
- Ancient ScholarsPlato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes
- Greek inventionsArchimedes screw, astrolabe, automata, ballista, catapult
- Hellenistic FiguresPtolemy, Eratosthenes, Archimedes, Euclid, Epicurus
- InventorsThomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin, Eli Whitney, Wright Brothers
Hero of AlexandriaPlato
Greek philosopher, academy founder
Pythagoras · metaphysician · Euclid · Aristotle · mystic
Hero of AlexandriaDaedalus
Legendary craftsman and inventor
Hephaestus · Prometheus · Icarus · Talos · Vulcan
Hero of AlexandriaLuddite
One opposing technological progress
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