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A PRACTICAL use of steam power! (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In 1551, Taqi al-Din [an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul] described an early example of an impulse steam turbine and also noted practical applications for a steam turbine as a prime mover for rotating a spit, predating Giovanni Branca's later impulse steam turbine from 1629. Taqi al-Din described such a device in his book, Al-Turuq al-saniyya fi al-alat al-ruhaniyya (The Sublime Methods of Spiritual Machines), completed in 1551 AD (959 AH).[32]

[โ€“] kaprap@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Oh it's not a shitpost. Hahahah