Hero Fountain Research Paper

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He also came up with the Principle of the shortest path of light, that can stated that if the light ray propagates from a one point to another one within the same medium. The path that it takes is the shortest one,of a theory that was later confirmed and proved with the shortest path that was named the Extremum. There also “Hero Fountain” a fountain that operates the movement of the energy is also one of his creation. Heron was even the first to make a machine that opened with an windwheel. The world benefited from so many of Heron inventions. Such as the sound effects, like the thunder sounds were produced by metal balls dropping on the drum. Many of Herons ideas were extension and improvement on other Greek inventors, that lived in Alexandria 300 years before him. …show more content…
He also had knowledge and a mastered in other fields including Cheirobatistra, Belopoeica, Automatopoietica, and Pneumetica. He was also very precise in dictating, the type of materials that he would be using to make the machine function properly. And did you know, he designed several mechanical devices that simulates the temple miracles, and it included a device attached to temple door, that will make the trumpet played, when someone would open the door coin operated holy water dispenser. This is just some of the things he, invented and come up with different ways to do things in math fields. There are so many things that Hero of Alexandria had accomplished in his life. Let just say he live a full and interesting life. As you can see Heron was a pretty smart and out there kind of guy. And he invented so many things and had some many amazing ideas. He really helped us out in some areas in the math field. He had some many different point of views on thing. For a person from his time period, he lived

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