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I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that steam engines were the first crossing between science and industry, and that the industrial development and

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that steam engines were the first crossing between science and industry, and that the industrial development and use of steam engines preceded their take-up as a subject of interest by scientists (or the approximations of the time).

roguas 4y ago
What? For sure a lot of engineering happened as a result of scientists and practioners discussing possible advancements. I have completely different understanding of history. Was not Archimedes a scientist that was presented with a task that required a lot of scientific reasoning.