From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:57:21 -0700 (PDT), Oh so rich & successful JTEM   
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   >  SolomonW wrote:   
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   >> I do not know if an industrial Revolution would have helped, gunpowder   
   >> would have but that was a long way away.   
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   > We had gunpowder in China and as has already been   
   > stated it didn't help one iota. There was such a   
   > gap between gunpowder & the industrial revolution   
   > in Europe that there is no connection, or at least   
   > nothing obvious.   
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   > http://jtem.tumblr.com/post/179116558518   
      
   It did help, gunpowder was used by the Sung dynasty against the   
   Mongols,with some success.   
      
   The Romans would have found gunpower useful both as a weapon and in civil   
   engineering.   
      
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