A steam engine powered by rocketpropulsion due to escaping steam, consisting of a pressure vessel mounted on a bearing, with one or more tubes which exhaust steam tangentially to the rotation axis so as to create rotation.
Origin
From French éolipyle, from Latin ("doorway of [[w:Aeolus").
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