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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.o

by 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?