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Non-precision items can be more field expedient to fix. If you're 30 days from the factory do you want something only they can fix, or something you can with th
by grogenaut 4y ago
Non-precision items can be more field expedient to fix. If you're 30 days from the factory do you want something only they can fix, or something you can with the local blacksmith or an axe, rope and a log?
- mannykannot 4y agoBut for this to explain the prior absence of precision engineering, and for that absence to explain the timing of the development of the steam engine, this would have to change around 1700. As far as I know, it didn't.