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First Jet Engine
Hero of Egypt In the first century after Christ developed the first Jet engine. He called it the •aeolipile." Basically it was a hollow metal globe from which projected bent tubes resembling faucets. It was mounted between two pipes attached to a tube of boiling water. Steam entered the globe through the pipes, and as it escaped through the bent tubes the Jets of steam spun the globe.
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