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[ajuc]

First steam turbines were made in ancient Rome. Took us almost 2000 years to commercialize them :)

[navi0 → ajuc]

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

[phkahler → navi0]

>> 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 → navi0]

Why automate/industrialize when you have literal slaves?

[scythe → ajuc]

Wikipedia's history of this is very nice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Pre...