I recreated Hero's aeolipile machine to see if this very first steam engine could be put to work. Could the industrial revolution started 2000 years earlier?

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Sometimes, looking back at history helps us understand what is happening to us today. When the steam engine arrived in factories, it wasn’t just a technical innovation, it changed the world. Suddenly, ...