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Historical Notes on Development of Power Generation Systems as Extrasomatic Need - 1

This article delves into the historical development of power generation systems, tracing their origins from the discovery of fire to the invention of steam power and beyond. It explores the innovative and conservative aspects of extrasomatic technology and its role in meeting somatic and extra-somatic needs. The article also highlights major breakthroughs in steam generators and the early pioneers who made significant contributions to the field.

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Historical Notes on Development of Power Generation Systems as Extrasomatic Need - 1

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  1. Historical Notes on Development of Power Generation Systems as Extrasomatic Need - 1 P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department Understand Science thru History?????

  2. A Simplified History of Power Plants • There is an old Amerrican saying: • “He who lacks a sense of the past is condemned to live in the narrow darkness of his own generation” • Any engineering science without history is an idea stripped of its greatness. • Power Generation is a supreme art of civilization. • This derives its grandeur from the fact of being human creation.

  3. The Greatest Extra-somatic Discovery Discovery of FIRE, FLAME and TORCH • Fire is a discovery rather than an invention. • Homo erectus probably discovered fire by accident. • Fire was most likely given to man as a 'gift from the heavens' when a bolt of lightning struck a tree or a bush, suddenly starting it on fire. • The flaming touch and the campfire probably constituted early man's first use of 'artificial' lighting. • As early as 400,000 BC, fire was kindled in the caves of Peking man. • Prehistoric man, used primitive lamps to illuminate his cave. • Various Oils were used as fuels.

  4. Extrasomatism & Art of Teaching & Learning

  5. The Accounting : A major concern in Extra-somatism If we are living in a cave and realized our extrasomatism, we need to start accounting with some degree of precise standard. We might be having fire, stick and stone tools in our cave. There, starts a measurement system. Like when you grunt and say how many fruits you collected for dinner, 1, 2 or 3.....measurements. When gathering wood for a fire you would ask for so much wood.....measurement. To live in our physical world we need to understand it (The Knowledge).

  6. Extrasomatism : Innovation and Conservation

  7. Historical Development in Steam Generators

  8. The Major Break Through Research due to Extra-somatic Behaviour…. Development of Equipment for Enhancing the Utility of Fire/fuel. Extra-somatism for Somatic Needs Development of Theory & Systems for Motive Power. Extra-somatism for Extra-Somatic Needs

  9. The Aelopile • In 130BC, Hero, a Greek mathematician and scientist is credited with inventing the first practical application of steam power, the aelopile.

  10. Branca's Steam Turbine • In 1629, Giovanni Branca, of the Italian town of Loretto, described, in a work' published at Rome, a number of ingenious contrivances. Artificial Animal Natural Engine

  11. Extra-somatism as Motive Power

  12. Extra-somatic Solutions w/o Holistic Approach Creation of Motive Power on Water : Dangerous & Inhuman Technologies by copying

  13. Early War Ships Assyrian warship, a bireme with pointed bow circa 700 BC Dutch 17th-century ship

  14. Thomas Savery • Savery became a military engineer, rising to the rank of Captain by 1702. • He spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics. • In 1696 he took out a patent for "rowing of ships with greater ease and expedicion than hitherto beene done by any other" which involved paddle-wheels driven by a capstan.

  15. Thomas Savery • This was dismissed by the Admiralty following a negative report by the Surveyor of the Navy, Edmund Dummer. • Thomas Savery was once ejected from the Lord of the Admiralty's office as a lunatic. • As he proposed a ship that could be propelled by side-mounted wheels rather than by wind or oars. He exhibited great fondness for mechanics, and for mathematicians, natural philosophy and gave much time to experimenting, to the contriving of various kinds of apparatus, and to invention.

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