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Subject:	Re: hiero's (hero's) fountain
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Date:	Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:19:07 EDT
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  Could you be referring to "Hero's Engine," a steam-driven device invented
by the Greek named Hero?  It looked like a globe with several L-shaped pipe
outlets through which steam escaped and turned the globe.  Perhaps Jefferson
saw some models of this type of engine in France.  Just a thought.

Joan Logan Brooks
a former employee of Babcock and Wilcox, whose logo included Hero's engine

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