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I guess you need mines that are being constantly flooded to need steam machines in the first place.

Wind mills were probably good enought for seed?



Ancient greeks did have steam powered toys. It has been discussed elsewhere, that you need a need for revolution to get the progress made on the labour force and market that emerged in the UK to get a first "industrial revolution" started.

Egyptians did have batteries, BTW.

Another angle, with the TL;DR of "There was no such thing a industrial revolution, ever":

Also, if you look at the numeric history of the combined agricultural/industrial throughput of mankind, there was no such thing as a time period for a single industrial revolution. The logarithmic scale of aforementioned output show no peaks, but rather that we made so far made the same speeding up slope in growth every year for all the history we can guess an estimate for.




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