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Yeah, in retrospect everything is so obvious. /facepalm How could the Greek and Roman engineers not discover and use steam machines? They were so close! The
by Shorel 6y ago
Yeah, in retrospect everything is so obvious. /facepalm
How could the Greek and Roman engineers not discover and use steam machines? They were so close! The machines are so obvious!
- thaumasiotes 6y agoYou need a more specific question; they did discover and use steam machines. But you probably have a particular use in mind. And once you realize that, you can ask "would steam engines have been helpful to the Greeks in this context?"
- rini17 6y agoTheir economy did not depend on deep mining and the need to pump water away from mines. This only happened over thousand years later.