"Porte automatique du temple" d'après Héron d'Alexandrie, décrite dans son ouvrage Pneumatika (1er siècle). Il s'agit d'un moteur à chaleur atmosphérique (un moteur à air chaud).

Hero of Alexandria or the Art for a Civilization to lose 1,700 years of technological development!

Hero has done his job. Hero was a hero for its era of time. And he could have been such a Hero for Human Civilisation but unfortunately he was not. It was not his fault. He was placed in a context, historical and technological, where the transmission of Knowledge was not possible. Things which were […]

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