Posted 6 years ago
jheier1
(1 item)
ran across this at a hobby store and wondered what it was. moving the wheels causes a few gears to rotate. I"m assuming the brass component was the water jacket.
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Posted 6 years ago
jheier1
(1 item)
ran across this at a hobby store and wondered what it was. moving the wheels causes a few gears to rotate. I"m assuming the brass component was the water jacket.
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Very cool! Could it be a steam driven machine of some sort? Perhaps a steam driven toy? Just a guess.
Put water in the "bulb", a fire underneath, and away you go. Probably use some type of alcohol burner or pellet. Neat.
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World's first 'car', invented in China several hundred years ago, looked like that.