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[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 60 points 1 year 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 14 points 1 year ago

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

High pressure only came later

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It took cannon technological development to make the high-pressure chambers for steam engines

[-] esadatari@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

mfs had batteries, sheit

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 11 points 1 year 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@kbin.social 32 points 1 year 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) 💪💪💪

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

This is the greatest description of mankind's rise and downfall.

[-] Amilo159@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I don't blame him, it's totally a legit use

[-] slashasdf@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I didn't make a mistake in the title

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The Greeks invented it like 2000 years earlier than that.

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think both the Greek one and this one are more accurately turbines, not engines right? Dunno how big of a difference that makes though.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We say “jet engine” though and that’s a turbine…

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's true. Although there's no piston jet engine to confuse it with whereas there is a steam engine and steam turbine that need distinguishing between.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

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