• Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
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    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.

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

      High pressure only came later

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

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        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.

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    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) 💪💪💪

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      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.

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          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.

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        Because the focal point of this is the stream power, not the döners. So, having come up with steam power 2000 years before the Turks is more relevant than migration patterns and cuisine.