From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   It's incredible, this ability of yours to be DEAD   
   WRONG on so many levels...   
      
    reader wrote:   
      
   > They had at most water wheels for grinding. This was   
   > an established technology in pre-roman cultures from   
   > about 400 BC.   
      
   The Roman water wheels were more advanced than   
   18th century examples, as they drew their water   
   from above.   
      
   They had saw mills. They had looms. They had cranks.   
   They had water wheels to power things.   
      
         ...the antikythera mechanism was about 100   
   years old by the time the first century rolled   
   around, and the technology had not been lost!   
      
   > The major difference was that using the elements above steam power was not   
   > developed in china as a power source.   
      
   Who cares?  As has already been pointed out more   
   than once, the industrial revolution began with   
   water power! STOP obsessive over irrelevant points.   
      
      
      
      
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