Probably not (and I'm sure the answer is in the book you mention), since those machines rely on decades of material science, chemical science, tooling, precisio

Probably not (and I'm sure the answer is in the book you mention), since those machines rely on decades of material science, chemical science, tooling, precision, etc. That said, some mechanisms can (and have) feasibly been used in e.g. Roman times; the Antikythera mechanism and other such archeological discoveries showed they (or the Greeks) had the skills, materials, ability etc to do cogs, gear ratios, etc. It's not a stretch to put that knowledge to work to e.g. do mass production. Actually they had mechanised sawmills for wood and rock as early as the 3rd century insofar as historians have been able to find evidence thereof, it's not a stretch that they could have built those 500 years prior.