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Did the Romans have the metallurgy to create steam engines?

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So the only place where you could have put a steam engine -- which you could not keep from exploding due to low quality metals and which could only be invented by the moneyed -- was a place where you put uppity slaves for punishment. read more

In order to have a truly useful steam engine, you need to have separated the boiling, working, and condensing functions of the machine, too, but that's less of a technology (to my mind) than it is an organizational factor that will become obvious as you're attempting to build an engine. read more

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