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With the science, engineering and metallurgy of the time, would the Romans have been able to build steam powered machine if they really wanted to? Did ancient scientists think about making a contraption with the same purpose, or is this concept so foreign due to other breakthroughs made much later?

by /u/lgmdnss in /r/AskHistorians

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