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Are there any famous inventions made by ancient Greece or Rome or Medieval peasants that were not related to the peasant's immediate occupation? Would a peasant even have enough time and mental capacity to make an invention that wasn't immediately useful practically?

by /u/Gaumir in /r/AskHistorians

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