What if the modern day steam engine was invented in ancient Rome?
How would this change things? Would Rome have had an industrial revolution of their own? Would the western empire still collapse? Would the Roman Empire continue into the twenty-first century?
I posted this because I was bored.
Actualy, the Greeks had a working model of the steam engine. The problem was that they didn't have enough energy to take it to the extent that 19th Century Britain did. They had wood as a fuel, which doesn't deliver as much energy as coal, and slave labour
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