# Does this 2,000 Year Old Steam Engine Work (Aeolipile)

I recreated Hero's aeolipile machine to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work. Could the industrial revolution started 2000 years earlier?

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 15 min
- By: How To Make Everything Credits: Created and Hosted by @AndyGeorge Primary Editing by Emerson Rice HTME Assistance by Elliot Krueger and Theo Melchoir Music by…
- Genres: Documentary, Science
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Does_this_2,000_Year_Old_Steam_Engine_Work_(Aeolipile).webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: How To Make Everything Credits: Created and Hosted by @AndyGeorge Primary Editing by Emerson Rice HTME Assistance by Elliot Krueger and Theo Melchoir Music by Taylor Lewin
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/153142600?play=1)