Presentation by prof. Guillermo Martínfrom IES María Zambrano of Leganés (Madrid, Spain)

1. Spanish science in the Baroque Era

2. Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont
1553-1613 (SPAIN)
Scientist, musician,
painter,
astronomer,soldier...
Constructed and
patented 48
inventions
His most important
invention was the
steam machine

3. Steam machine history
HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
1st Century A.D. (Greece)
REIMS CATHEDRAL ORGAN
XII Century
JAMES WATT
1769 (ENGLAND)
NEWCOMEN
1712 (ENGLAND)
JERONIMO DE AYANZ
1606 (SPAIN)
EDWARD SOMERSET
1663 (ENGLAND)
PAPIN
1680 (FRANCE)
LEIBNIZ
1705 (GERMANY)
THOMAS SAVERY
1698 (ENGLAND)

4. AEOLIPILA
A fire beneath the
cauldron boils water,
producing steam which is
conducted through one of
the copper supports to the
pivoted brass sphere. This
steam issues from nozzles
at the ends of the two
small opposing arms on
the sphere causing it to
rotate.

5. ACCELERATING UP TO 1500 r.p.m.

6. JERONIMO'S STEAM MACHINE
This machine
was used to
remove water
from the inside
of the mines at
the beginning
of the XVII
Century.

7. Putt Putt Boat