[BenLurkin]

I'm surpised the Greeks didn't figure out how to make use of this:

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/search?query=greece

https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/search?query=greeks

https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/search?query=sparta

[William Tell]

”I'm surpised the Greeks didn't figure out how to make use of this:”

It’s very difficult to imagine what things would be like today if the steam engine had been invented two thousand years earlier.

[2001convSVT]

Yes, the Hero steam engine is a good demonstration of the power of steam but to have real concentrate power a reciprocating steam engine is needed to produce instantaneous torque. Perhaps with personal intellectual property rights someone would have prefected the design during Roman times.