Professor Schwartz gavo a lecture at Manchester University on Hero, of Alexandria, who, ho was able lo fhow, was (he inventor in the eentjiry. before Christ of a steam engine which embodied the principle of the Parsons turbine in the Mauretania. Hero also made a lire engine (the precursor of tho modern pump), and a peiuiy-iivthe-slot machine amoug, other notable tilings,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 10
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61Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 10
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