|
Spanish engineer and inventor Jerónimo de Ayanz was an inventor and military who designed all kind of machines, from the first apparatus of diving to a scale that could weigh "the leg of a fly". He also designed windmills and the “ingenio del vaivén” or “swinging device”, used for the transmission of movement and for measuring the machines performance. Also, Jerónimo de Ayanz can be considered as the precursor of the steam engines. Since the mechanisms developed in ancient Greece, the use of steam had hardly changed. Jerónimo de Ayanz patented several steam engines in various applications such as renewing the air in the mine or producing fresh air. He was also one the firsts to use steam engines to lift water. The expansive force of steam was used to push the water from the tanks, being the entry of water and steam controlled with valves. In the descriptions of his steam engines, Jerónimo de Ayanz was thorough in details like the fit of the valves or the need for thick pipes and tanks with silver welding to withstand the pressure. |
||||||||||||||
|
variant spelling: de Ayanz y Beaumont, Jerónimo; de Ayanz, Jerónimo |
||||||||||||||
| Curriculum vitae |
|
|||||||||||||
DMG-Lib
Europeana