A steam rocket (also known as a hot water rocket) is a thermal rocket that uses water held in a pressure vessel at a high temperature, such that its saturated vapor pressure is significantly greater than ambient pressure. The water is allowed to escape as steam through a rocket nozzle to produce thrust.
Steam rockets are probably best known for their use in rocket-powered car and bikes, and they are the type used in aeolipile.
Steam rockets are usually pressure fed, but more complex designs using solar energy or nuclear energy have been proposed.
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“Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if I do not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.”
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