HISTORY
Egyptian reliefs from 1500BC depict siphons used to extract liquids from large storage jars.There is physical evidence for the use of siphons by Greek engineers in the 3rd century BC at Pergamon.Hero of Alexandria wrote extensively about siphons in the treatise Pneumatica.In the 9th century,the Banu Musa brothers invented a double-concentric siphons,which they described in their Book of Ingenious Devices.
Siphons were studied further in the 17th century,in the context of suction pumps