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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

High pressure only came later

[–] raltoid 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Zoboomafoo 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] esadatari 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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) 💪💪💪

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Amilo159 21 points 2 years ago

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

[–] carl_dungeon 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Greeks invented it like 2000 years earlier than that.

[–] fidodo 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] fidodo 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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