Bronze steam boiler und gutenberg printing press: was sie gemeinsam haben

1. Schritt 1. Bronze steam boiler — ist Teil von — Heron’s aeolipile. A vessel of boiling water.
2. Schritt 2. Heron’s aeolipile — inspirierte — Vending machine. Heron described both a holy-water dispenser and the aeolipile; the dispenser is the prototype of the vending machine.
3. Schritt 3. Vending machine — hat als Teil — Spring. A spring holds the dispenser.
4. Schritt 4. Spring — ist Teil von — Automat. The mainspring stores the energy.
5. Schritt 5. Automat — inspirierte — Jacquard loom. Vaucanson, the maker of automata, built an automatic loom whose ideas Jacquard used.
6. Schritt 6. Jacquard loom — funktioniert wie — Gutenberg printing press. An analogy, not proven influence: both set type and a chain of punched cards are a replaceable pattern that a machine reproduces over and over.

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