Mickey7@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 22 days agoYou can pick any date you want to go back in time. You can take anything from the present with you. What do you take?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down12
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareYou can pick any date you want to go back in time. You can take anything from the present with you. What do you take?Mickey7@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 22 days agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squareBananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-221 days agoA steam engine back to Ancient Rome, just to see what they might have achieved with that kind of idea.
minus-squarewill_a113@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·21 days agoThe Ancient Greeks had steam engines centuries before Rome existed and mostly just treated them as curiosities (probably because they were too impractical to use as weapons of war)
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·21 days agoI believe they lacked the metallurgy to make high pressure steam vessels.
A steam engine back to Ancient Rome, just to see what they might have achieved with that kind of idea.
The Ancient Greeks had steam engines centuries before Rome existed and mostly just treated them as curiosities (probably because they were too impractical to use as weapons of war)
I believe they lacked the metallurgy to make high pressure steam vessels.