Heron fountain

Re-create Heron's Fountain From Water Bottles: I originally made this project for a client's website. It's a fun experiment that led to a lot of discussions about perpetual motion and free energy. My version does not exhibit either of these properties, but you may be able to fool people into t…

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Heron's fountain is a hydraulic machine invented by the 1st century AD inventor, mathematician, and physicist Heron of Alexandria . He...

Spice up your backyard! Green Power Science shows you how to put together a Heron’s fountain from recycled water bottles and polyethylene tubing.

How To Make a Three-Bottle Heron's FountainFor this experiment, I used 3 empty bottles, 7 straws, a hot glue gun, a drilling machine, pen ink, and some water...

Spice up your backyard! Green Power Science shows you how to put together a Heron’s fountain from recycled water bottles and polyethylene tubing.

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In our society today we are often surprised and impressed by the advancement of technology and engineering, a major characteristic of our civilisation. However if we look back more than 2,000 years ago, we can find mechanical marvels and incredible feats of engineering that were ahead of their time. Many became lost to the pages of history, only to become reinvented just a few centuries ago.