How was the aeolipile adapted in later centuries?

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In later centuries the aeolipile was adapted for practical uses, such as creating sounds in a hydraulic organ and as air-blowing tools that turned spits and intensified fires to melt glass and metal. There are also reports that an aeolipile may have been adapted to power wheels affixed to the side of a ship capable of driving the vessel forward through the water in 16th-century Spain.