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It's very unlikely that anything like this exists. Whatever writing craftsmen may have done in ancient times, it simply was not preserved and copied. The situa
by cfmcdonald 5y ago
It's very unlikely that anything like this exists. Whatever writing craftsmen may have done in ancient times, it simply was not preserved and copied.
The situation gradually improves post-Renaissance, but we don't even have any contemporaneous writings about how Newcomen designed and built his engine in the early 1700s - just second-hand information from decades later.