It's my understanding that early steam engines were pretty rubbish until the underlying thermodynamics were understood and then you could engineer your way to a

It's my understanding that early steam engines were pretty rubbish until the underlying thermodynamics were understood and then you could engineer your way to a Watt Engine [0] that was revolutionary. The nearly two order of magnitude superiority of this sea grass on this metric is tantalizing. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine