Electrical_Jaguar596 t1_j2aot2h wrote
Reply to comment by tampering in Is Canticle For Lebowitz supposed to be funny? by Redjay12
What’s crazy is the Greeks did invent the steam engine, they just didn’t figure out its practical use. They were so close to the Industrial Revolution it’s mind boggling.
bhbhbhhh t1_j2bahbs wrote
The industrial revolution came from a large number of economic factors that England had in 1750 and Greece never did. The actual technologies themselves were actually a bit secondary.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/why-was-industrial-revolution-british
laconicflow t1_j2bv53m wrote
Industrial revolution in the Roman Republic would have been nuts, I wonder what would have happened.
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