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China had steam engines?
by runsWphotons 4y ago
China had steam engines?
- ska 4y agoSort of; so did Egypt - but these were more steam devices not engines per se. I think the limiting factor was metallurgy & pressure vessel design before you can do something like Watt did.
- woolion 4y agoDo you have references? I'd be interested to learn about the subject. Quick search gave me [0] for Egypt and [1] for China, and both answers seem to be "not really". [0] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/1991/was-the-steam-engine-really-known-in-ancient-egypt https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/1991/was-the-steam-e... [1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/2012/did-the-chinese-develop-steam-engines-prior-to-the-17th-century https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/2012/did-the-chi...