Rajid Mohandas or you know, that whole alexander's library burning of a shit ton of books didn't happen...

Or we could of nuked ourselves before the Renaissance.

@@evanswinters5636 But hey we got to live on the moon and explore space much earlier. And oh look a curve ball, since einstein and all those other guys didn't get born in this timeline as explained by the butterfly effect, nuclear warheads would have been invented and could be like a pseudo lost technology. Technically non existent technology. So the world wars would be fought with other methods assuming the invention of those nuclear weapons aren't inevitable human creations. We could have easily missed inventing this in our timeline if some crucial guys like einstein didn't exist. One real example of a non existent technology in our timeline is gasoline powered by just water by stanley meyer. His death because of murder changed our course greatly. I wonder how the world would have been if he didn't die and taught his secret on how to make that work.

Who would’ve discovered the atomic bomb first had the Industrial Revolution started in Ancient Rome? Persia? Rome? Or China?

Doubtful. Lol. Thing is. There most likely there was already higher levels of technology way way back but the younger dryas period, the ice age ground all that shit to dust. So most likely it's all been done before and maybe to a higher degree. Still didn't protect us from that shit.

Good idea for a book, Im writing it

Rift31 How’s the book coming along ?

@Disposable Email Hey! The Aeolipile was invented in the 1st Century AD, so Rome was solidly a dictatorship at that point. Also, steampunk is supposed to be about the fight of oppressed classes against an uncaring, complicated society, so it would be more in line for the stories to talk about how steam power was used to subjugate noncitizens and take over more territory faster.

Roman spaceships😂😂😂

@Disposable Email you are dumb. Have you not heard of the Roman empire? No, you knew it as fact and ignored it to pretend that the world would be paradise if only we just listened to you. So said every emperor in history. Hypocrite. I can't bear hearing someone as stupid as you, but you surely enjoy viewing the world through the blurry glass that is your intellect. Ignorance is bliss as they say.

apparently not the script about Heron's steam engine, since we somehow know about his invention

Caesar should be prosecuted posthumously for crimes against humanity.

@@jinjunliu2401 Copies were made and reproduced right through the middle ages, but the original no longer exists.

it’s was them the great coverup so much lost.

But why do that when back then u had slaves and horses much easier

@@wingedhussar1453 well, we seem to have for the most part moved on from slaves and horses, so I guess at some point for some reason the advantages of machinery surpassed the abilities of humans fast enough to be economically viable.

@@oberonpanopticon yea but at the time it wasnt feasible and much cheaper and easier to use slaves.actually if we never moved on from slaves we would still not move on to machinery becasue it would be cheaper

@@wingedhussar1453 my main question then is, why did industrialization take off in idk 1700s England was it? And not Ancient Rome?

@@oberonpanopticon becasue slavery was illegally lol

Where did you read that he offered to power chariots with it?

It's true for Rome it was pointless as they had slaves and horses

@@gregorymalchuk272 Hi Greg, On a parchment in the library of the Monastery of St. John on the island of Patmos in 1957. (I was then a student in Patmos). There was also a drowning with three wheels with pegs on each one and with a string running haphazardly around the pegs. Also, the end of the first wheel was tied to a second wheel and the end of the second to third. At one end of each wheel, a rope coiled with a weight was tied at their ends.... Years later, in London, I saw a recreation of Adam Hart-Davis from Heron's Automatic Theater (he was the science presenter of BB2), but with a single wheel rolling across the floor spinning on different directions and rearranging the rope, around the pegs, different roots followed.

Reminds me of a story where an inventor of a form of flexible/unbreakable glass gets an audience with Tiberius, Tiberius sees the demonstration, asks if anyone else knows, then has him executed to protect the value of gold and other metals.

The film is running backwards look at the waves

@@noahwiggs9380 Yes I noticed it was turning backwards too but did not notice the waves in the sea going backwards as well! I wonder how they screwed that up!

@@Evan-e-cent probably to avoid copy right

i saw the same then came in the comment section

sad but true 🤔

the basics of analog computers were discovered in this Greek era as well but ended up being lost and forgotten about until the 14th century.

"What if ?" - it will haunt us till end of days.

With magnets yes, but im not an electrician or scientist, so that was just a theory.

one and zero duh

Well they did have the Antikythera mechanism.

I think it had to do with a 10 minute mechanical stage play that Heron built that was operated by ropes, knots, pulleys, and primitive digital logic.

Analog computers/logic gates.

they made clock like computer for simple calculation

@@fsddfdafdsfs8008 The antikythera device was more than a clock. It calculated the positions of all the known planets and could predict eclipses etc. It was an analogue computer made for one specific purpose (not a general purpose calculator). Amazing technology.

@@samuelthomasengardio He had also constructed windmills and was looking for a way to keep them working even when there was no wind. He was really half a step away from using the steam power for this purpose. If only he lived a little longer he would really had done it! Or at least someone among his students in his Technical University...

video is played backward as i can see

but then the bowl of fire would have to move with the wheel, seems like a difficult problem, although a genius like him would probably had nice solutions for it if he ever thought of connecting a wheel to it

When slavery was considered the norm in society and all those not citizens of Rome were slaves which numbered in the millions there's no incentive to mechanize labor e.g. the lack of industrialization in the Confederacy compared to the Union at the time of the Civil War. In other words slave systems are impediments to mechanical and technological progress.

@@jinjunliu2401 Not that difficult, it is already spinning disconnected from the heat source. AKA just put the spinning bit on the ground, 4 of those, a platform in between and you got a steam car. They definitely saw this possibility. They're not stupid. So why didn't they do it??? The answer "slaves" is equally stupid because no matter how many people you enslave, they cannot carry stuff as fast as car.

+IGaffedOnce BECAUSE HIS NAME WAS HERON AND NOT HERO! IN GREEK THESE TWO ARE DIFFERENT WORDS. THE NAME HERON IS WRITTEN "ΗΡΩΝ", WHILE THE HERO, IS WRITTEN "ΗΡΩΣ"!

+Kostas Antonopoulos SO , THE GUY WHO HAS POSTED THIS WONDERFUL VIDEO, HAS WRITTEN THE NAME INCORRECTLY!

+Kostas Antonopoulos Jesus Christ, can you calm down with the caps lock? You got your point across very clearly, even without the capitols.

THE CAPITALS ARE NOT TO MAKE MY POINT CLEAR! IT IS BECAUSE I LIKE WRITING THIS WAY! SO RELAX, NO ONE IS TRYING TO IMPOSE HIS OPINION TO YOU!

Kostas Antonopoulos WOW! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!

This seemed to be the second great known witch hunt and series of witch trials of ancient Rome, though many more probably took place, as claiming someone was a witch with powers over the supernatural was always a politically savvy way to weaken opponents. And ancient Rome was a place of political strife. The Bacchanalia was forced underground through the passage of witchcraft laws, which attempted to snuff out the cults, though they would be revived when Julius Caesar was in power. Better than you

Not if you're using the device in water. The Greeks could have made steamboat if they created a hole in the chamber that contains the water, and attached propellers to the ball.

Funnel with two reservoir chambers... Gears used to churn mill stone,,, instant portable millstone.

On top of that, it would be very difficult to get any power out of it, especially with the lack of bearing technology back then (for example there weren't any sealed bearings for tubes).

Bilbo_Gamers if that’s your mindset YOU wouldn’t be able too. But others could, or at minimum it’s a blueprint for future generations. Now a days we could use it to store energy on a battery using converter. Use magnetic bearings. Power w/ natural gas/geothermal source. Possible uses if adapted. You need to change your mindset and think in solutions not using words like “can’t” “useless”, etc. My two cente

The Romans had huge old-growth forests available, and the Romans were well aware of coal, and mined it on a large scale to use for heating and also blacksmithing.