Bronze steam boiler y Imprenta de Gutenberg: qué tienen en común

1. Paso 1. Bronze steam boiler — forma parte de — Eolípila de Herón. A vessel of boiling water.
2. Paso 2. Eolípila de Herón — inspiró — Máquina expendedora. Heron described both a holy-water dispenser and the aeolipile; the dispenser is the prototype of the vending machine.
3. Paso 3. Máquina expendedora — tiene como parte — Resorte. A spring holds the dispenser.
4. Paso 4. Resorte — forma parte de — Autómata. The mainspring stores the energy.
5. Paso 5. Autómata — inspiró — Telar Jacquard. Vaucanson, the maker of automata, built an automatic loom whose ideas Jacquard used.
6. Paso 6. Telar Jacquard — funciona como — Imprenta de Gutenberg. 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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