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Re:Why no Roman industrial revolution? by mcguire on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:40PM (#32612505)
Additionally,

"If you had given the Romans the designs for a Newcomen steam engine, they [...] wouldn’t have had any profitable use to put it to."

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Re:Why no Roman industrial revolution? by MichaelCollins on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:48PM (#32612580)
If they did see the utility, they might have simply killed you for threatening the pack animal / slave industries.
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