So /his/ considering the romans knew about steam (also greeks) could they ever develop in an industrialization? Or they needed more than just know about steam and slaves?
>>920294
They had slaves. That's literally the reason technological innovation was so slow during the Roman Empire particularly (though only compared to today). The Greek Alexandrian who built the first steam device was like "this shit is useless when you have slaves who can do this shit far more easily". Plus the major pitfall of mechanisation is that it puts people out of work, and most people in the ancient world were only seasonally employed to begin with.
>>920310
But imagine heavy industrialization and slaves... just.
>>920294
The steam engine was a consequence of industrialization, and the knowledge of steam by the Ancients doesn't mean a steam engine anymore than the knowledge of oil mean an internal combustion engine.
>>920325
They're mutually exclusive. If you have slaves, you have no need to develop technology to reduce manpower costs.
>>920294
Metallurgy was not advanced enough in antiquity to create any kind of industrial steam technology, like steam engines.
>>920516
And you didn't have an efficient enough means of generating heat to make boiling enough water practical.
>aeolipile
>anything more than a novelty
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