Taqi al-Din's steam jack
Asador con turbina de vapor de Taqi al-Din
- Date
- 1551 · confidence high
- Place
- Cairo, Egypt
- Credited to
- Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Maruf
- Field
- Matter & energy
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
In his treatise on machines he describes a spit that turns by means of a jet of steam directed against the blades of a wheel, as well as a six-cylinder pump. It is one of the earliest descriptions of an impulse steam turbine.
It was a device with no industrial application. The place where it was written is uncertain (Taqi al-Din was then living between Nablus, Damascus and Cairo).
What it led to
- Branca's steam turbine (1629)
- multiple-piston pumps