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So did anyone else catch these 3 0ne hour shows on History Channel and what did you think of them?

Only caught part of the Antithykera one, very intersting. I doubt those things could have been very common, but I don't discount it out of hand for being too complex like some people have done in the past.

I didn't see the show, cause I don't have cable/sat. but I thought I read somewhere that an ancient inventor made for a russian Czar once a little toy that ran on Steam, some centuries before the steam engine was actually made. you simply poured boiling water into it, capped it off and CHOO CHOO! How crazy would it have been to see the industrial revoution happening in the 12th century, eh?

But it was Russian. It probably broke down and irridated everyone within a square mile .

Chardok wrote:I didn't see the show, cause I don't have cable/sat. but I thought I read somewhere that an ancient inventor made for a russian Czar once a little toy that ran on Steam, some centuries before the steam engine was actually made. you simply poured boiling water into it, capped it off and CHOO CHOO! How crazy would it have been to see the industrial revoution happening in the 12th century, eh?

Lots of people had steam-powered toys. A temple in Alexandria had steam-operated doors, and a Byzantine Emperor had a throne that could be raised with steam and some toy lions and birds.

No industrial revolution would happen, though, because there was no driving need for it. Slaves were sufficient labor at the time.

StarshipTitanic wrote:

Chardok wrote:I didn't see the show, cause I don't have cable/sat. but I thought I read somewhere that an ancient inventor made for a russian Czar once a little toy that ran on Steam, some centuries before the steam engine was actually made. you simply poured boiling water into it, capped it off and CHOO CHOO! How crazy would it have been to see the industrial revoution happening in the 12th century, eh?

Lots of people had steam-powered toys. A temple in Alexandria had steam-operated doors, and a Byzantine Emperor had a throne that could be raised with steam and some toy lions and birds.

No industrial revolution would happen, though, because there was no driving need for it. Slaves were sufficient labor at the time.

That and they didn't have the machine tooling to provide for the things necesarry for a true industrial revolution.