• Kbin_space_program
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    592 years ago

    Yes, and famously the ancient Egyptians used steam power for religious trickery and to open a pair of doors to one of their temples.

    The trick is that without much better metallurgy and pipework, it wasn’t possible to create the kind of high pressure needed for a steam engine.

    Same thing goes for evolution. The rough concept had been around for a while; it took until “deep time”(earth being billions of years old) was proven that we knew that life actually had the kind of time needed to evolve.

    • @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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      132 years ago

      The first useful industrial widespread steam engines we low pressure water pumps weren’t they?

      High pressure only came later

      • Raltoid
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        42 years ago

        To be fair, it was low pressure because it operated by creating a partial vacuum from condensing steam.

      • Kbin_space_program
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        112 years ago

        If you mean the “Baghdad Batteries” unfortunately not. Deeper analysis has revealed that it was a sort of prayer system. They’d write or offer something, seal it in a small metal box, then put that in a larger jar.

  • PugJesus
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    322 years ago

    Physics: “There are many possibilities for these basic principles upon which all of reality hinges”

    Human civilization: “food more better now”

    Mankind stronk (and well-fed) 💪💪💪

  • Jake Farm
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    22 years ago

    The Hero’s Engine is a steam engine that was invented in Greece around 50 AD.