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Handing an ancient society a modern machine would have achieved nothing: the Romans could neither have built a steam engine nor found a profitable use for one.
Drawn from what Bret Devereaux said
SubjectEurope
What Bret Devereaux actually said
- Bret Devereaux Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy…
If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they couldn’t have built it without developing whole new technologies for the purpose (or casting every part in bronze, which introduces its own problems) and then wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to.
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↗Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?acoup.blog
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