Surely the main point is that the Romans didn’t need an industrial revolution of the type we had later. They had no need to pump out water from deep mines, or

Surely the main point is that the Romans didn’t need an industrial revolution of the type we had later. They had no need to pump out water from deep mines, or need to reduce the cost of labour for producing cheap goods. They certainly had an architectural/construction revolution so would have likely have developed similar solutions to the same problems if they had them.