Hi all,
Now I'm fairly aware the Antikythera Mechanism is almost viewed with the same disdain as the Aeolipile to a certain extent. However, the mechanism does to an extent point towards a vast prior knowledge with complex gear systems that amounted to the Antikythera Mechanism. Unlike the basic Aeolipile of which we are aware with 2000 years of hindsight that the basis of which leads to steam engines but requires vast industrial leaps for any pragmatic use.
Yet the basis of the Antikythera Mechanism, complex gear mechanisms, is arguably far more advanced technology than many of the practical applications such knowledge can be applied to.
So my question is, with a POD at around 100BC (around or just before the Antikythera Mechanism is produced) can we start seeing gear systems being used in various applications across the Greco-Roman world in agriculture, windmills/watermills, mining, construction and other applications to a far greater extent than in OTL? What would the effects of a cog and gear industrial revolution be?
Now I'm fairly aware the Antikythera Mechanism is almost viewed with the same disdain as the Aeolipile to a certain extent. However, the mechanism does to an extent point towards a vast prior knowledge with complex gear systems that amounted to the Antikythera Mechanism. Unlike the basic Aeolipile of which we are aware with 2000 years of hindsight that the basis of which leads to steam engines but requires vast industrial leaps for any pragmatic use.
Yet the basis of the Antikythera Mechanism, complex gear mechanisms, is arguably far more advanced technology than many of the practical applications such knowledge can be applied to.
So my question is, with a POD at around 100BC (around or just before the Antikythera Mechanism is produced) can we start seeing gear systems being used in various applications across the Greco-Roman world in agriculture, windmills/watermills, mining, construction and other applications to a far greater extent than in OTL? What would the effects of a cog and gear industrial revolution be?
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