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Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? by kingkawn on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:14PM (#20445344)
The Haya people from contemporary Tanzania began making steel 2,000 years ago.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi385.htm

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Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? by simonebrunozzi on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:22PM (#20445404)
Hmm... And so? Hardly the first. [0] Although, I admit, I wouldn't have thought that Tanzania would be so advanced in that era.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_metallurgy

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Re:Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? by kingkawn on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @11:36AM (#20460595)
Your citation was about iron metallurgy in Rome, not steel.
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