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"I think the Roman Empire was more sophisticated and urbane than the Hollywood portrayal we’ve been feed."

The Hierapolis stone sawmill shows the use of gear train, crank and connecting rods, if they just could have paired that with Heron's steam engine they might have had an industrial revolution.

[BobL]

“...if they just could have paired that with Heron’s steam engine they might have had an industrial revolution.”

They didn’t have the math. It took Newton and others to get that figured out...and then things took off like a rocket (including rockets!).

[Red Badger]

They had technology we had to rediscover after the Dark Ages. The Romans has sophisticated machinery and engineers........................

[pierrem15]

In what's today Algeria, archaeologists have found the remains of a high pressure drop horizontal turbine with curved blades. Water from a sluice was redirected to a pipe made of tightly fitted hollowed stone slabs with a drop of about 30 feet.

It's in the Oxford handbook of ancient technology. They're not sure why the Romans needed needed a high-speed turbine.

Must be aliens! /s