• @BananaTrifleViolin
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    9 hours ago

    A steam engine back to Ancient Rome, just to see what they might have achieved with that kind of idea.

    • Rob Bos
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      33 hours ago

      I believe they lacked the metallurgy to make high pressure steam vessels.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 hours ago

      The Ancient Greeks had steam engines centuries before Rome existed and mostly just treated them as curiosities (probably because they were too impractical to use as weapons of war)