The "Who invented the steam engine?"[0] section of "The Book of General Ignorance" refers to a "brilliant essay" by Arnold Toynbee that imagines a global Greek

The "Who invented the steam engine?"[0] section of "The Book of General Ignorance" refers to a "brilliant essay" by Arnold Toynbee that imagines a global Greek empire enabled by a rail network derived from combining the aeolopile and the Diolkos. I'd love to read that essay but they don't cite it and I have yet to come across it myself. [0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mjd2GCRPmAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20book%20of%20general%20ignorance&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=true https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mjd2GCRPmAC&newbks=1&newb...