I suppose it all depends on your definition of "industrial". Some Roman inventions have not been matched in the modern world. One that immediately springs to m

I suppose it all depends on your definition of "industrial". Some Roman inventions have not been matched in the modern world. One that immediately springs to mind is 'concrete'. Roman concrete is far superior to modern concrete. Some modern concrete is only a century or so old, but is rotting away rapidly, while a lot of Roman concrete remains two thousand years later.