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Could there have been an industrial revolution in Ancient Rome?

🕑 Added 2025-03-16 22:32:00 +0000 UTC

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Majima Cookie

Fascinating video, definitely took a more philosophical approach than I expected

Premodernist

Good point. You'd need some pretty narrow tolerances on some parts so that you can maintain steam pressure. It could be that that's a similar skill/technology to making a precisely detailed die for a printing press.

Berk Aydın

Just a quick question (maybe I understood wrong). If you think that Romans are not able to produce precise machinery tools for printing press, they surely cannot produce a steam engine. Or am I wrong in my assumption that steam engine requires precise machinery parts (I would say say even more complex than printing press)?

Premodernist

I am not, at least not consciously. Do you mean when magic or claims of the supernatural come up?

Eric Dovigi

Are you consciously using a physicalist, scientistic paradigm of truth in these discussions? I'd love to see a video (even if it's a mini one) where you discuss your own approach to epistemology in history