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Couldn't there be ceramic boilers? Roman steam-punk legions of amfora-powered siege weapons ... > Perhaps they would have found employment in the Roman world i
by nathias 5y ago
Couldn't there be ceramic boilers? Roman steam-punk legions of amfora-powered siege weapons ...
> Perhaps they would have found employment in the Roman world in the same place they did historically: de-watering mines.
It could be that the coincidence of coal mining and coal being good steam power source was what was required to kickstart it.
- jccooper 5y agoCeramic (and masonry) aren't great in tension, which is the main mode for boilers. And its brittle, so it'll go from okay to exploding pretty fast. So not a great engineering choice. But, I suppose, you can use a lot of it, so you could probably make it work. Won't be terribly portable, though. And don't ask me to stand next to it.