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Jul 10, 20232 min

Stan Bray's "Simple Sam"

After getting Elizabeth chuffing happily on the bench, and the heroes engine spinning away, I wanted something simple to build confidence before tackling anything more complicated. Enter Simple Sam from Stan Bray's Making Simple Model Steam Engines.

oscillator stan bray

Jun 4, 20234 min

Stan Bray's "Hero's Engine"

The first project in Stan Bray's excellent book Making Simple Model Steam Engines (Crowood Press, 2005) is a modern take on Hero's Engine (also known as an aeolipile), the ancient steam reaction turbine described by Hero of Alexandria nearly 2,000 years ago.

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