Timeline for Why was the Aeolipile not put to practical use in classical antiquity?
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| Feb 7, 2017 at 15:17 | comment | added | Jeff | Yes: They had no reason to believe that it would have any advantage over other forms of power. That would have taken quite an imagination to suggest that it could move a ship faster than oarsmen. Maybe if someone had seen gunpowder it would have made them consider that things more powerful than aggregate muscle existed. | |
| Feb 5, 2017 at 21:04 | history | answered | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |