# #Mon Aug 09 12:00:46 CEST 2010 Text__2YooIKOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

A pivoted boiler is set in rotation by steam escaping from it. The construction goes back to Heron of Alexandria (first century A.D.). Such models are very popular in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as perfume sprayers or simply as amusement.

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