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your killing me S!
Thanks Ma'am. Parish and Serenity are the only 'known' ones making mod sleeves. But, living this side of the border has it's own perils... some of the vendor's shipping costs are beyond comprehension! Both these are one such -- Shipping this side costs more than the sleeve, sigh!
I think we have a winner here
HERON will be the name of GP Spheroid 22/23 atomizer to honour the Heron of Alexandria.
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. AD 10–70) was an ancient Hellene mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
He's best known for what we call Hero's turbine -- a steam-driven whirligig that worked a little like a modern jet engine. He did mechanics, astronomy, and math. It is almost certain that Heron taught at the Musaeum which included the famous Library of Alexandria, because most of his writings appear as lecture notes for courses in mathematics, mechanics, physics and pneumatics. Although the field was not formalised until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics.
You see, Hero invented feedback control devices. His self-filling wine bowl, for example, had a hidden float valve that automatically sensed the level of wine in a bowl. When guests ladled out wine, the bowl mysteriously refilled itself.
That's called a closed feedback loop. Egyptian inventors had been making gadgets like that for 300 years before Heron. They'd made feedback-controlled water-clocks and lamp-fillers.
By the time Heron lived, 2000 years ago, Rome had annexed Egypt, and intellectual freedom gave way to imperial authority. Heron was the end of an inventive age. Not 'til the 1600s was another feedback device invented. Feedback meant letting go of control -- letting a machine make its own decisions. Authoritarian minds don't like that.
Heron had set up a do-loop for what we call an iterative solution. The same person who worked with feedback control loops now gives us a wonderful computer do-loop. In either case we start a process and then let it pass out of our hands.
Heron's story has a moral: we have no freedom without letting go of control.
Heron ... was the last breath of a Golden Age in North Africa. It'd be 1600 years before math, mechanics, and human affairs would catch up with that fragile inventive freedom we sell so easily for security -- that we sell to satisfy our need to stay in control.
Vapourart uses the symbol of aeolipile as our trademarked insignia from the beginning, because we are great admirers of this unique Hellene scientist.
Thank you so much all of you guys and gulls for your participation, many names were really tempting for us to use and very well thought!
Sources:
Hero of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
No. 1038: Hero of Alexandria
Heron of Alexandria - Ancient Machines
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Today is the day!! the hubs B-day is today!! AND AND AND....We got confirmation of DHL tracking number today!! Whooo hooo!
thanks Perseas!!
thanks Perseas!!
I think we have a winner here
HERON will be the name of GP Spheroid 22/23 atomizer to honour the Heron of Alexandria...
Good Choice√
Congrats Chad!
Although I have tested till now only with GP PAPS v1, v2, v2.1, v2.5 SS and LUX edition, I suppose any mod with M20x1 mm threads will do the job.
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