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First steam turbines were made in ancient Rome. Took us almost 2000 years to commercialize them :)

• navi0 3y ago
  TIL the Romans invented the first steam engine but didn’t seem to grasp its revolutionary potential and used it mostly as a party trick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile?wprov=sfti1
  • phkahler 3y ago
    >> TIL the Romans invented the first steam engine but didn’t seem to grasp its revolutionary potential and used it mostly as a party trick I guess they were civil engineers, not mechanical engineers.
  • lazide 3y ago
    Why automate/industrialize when you have literal slaves?
• scythe 3y ago
  Wikipedia's history of this is very nice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Precursors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Pre...