It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".
It's so easy how is everyone so stupid. I'd invent the train afterward and drive around everyone saying "you're so fucking stupid I'm not even good at this and I did it".
If I time-traveled there and tried to do the same I imagine it'd start with a long and confused explanation to a blacksmith on what I need and end with either me exploding in a pink mist due to the boiler being improperly made, or me being burned by priests for being a witch in the end.
Also, related: in ancient times they built aeolipiles - very basic steam power contraptions (used today to demonstrate steam power in schools), based on the writings of an Egyptian scientist more than 2 centuries before Christ Era. Historians aren't 100% on this but they're pretty sure they were simply seen as a curiosity or a temple marvel.
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#1 I'd invent steel. It's iron and carbon. Everyone born before steel was automatically dumber than I am
#2 If I saw Ctesibius I'd say "lmao put that on a wagon you idiot fuck I have to think of everything for you people" and then I'd invent cars.
one does not simply invent steal.
First, you have to invent high temerature ceramics to build a furnace, then you have to obtain a fule source that can get hot enough (typically coal, charcoal isn't enough, even with compressed air)
and to work it you need to iteratively build up good tools.
Better off with Bronze at first because pre 1700 steel-making is shit outside a few specific places, most of which had shitty iron ore.
Find a bell maker (or a cannon maker if late enough) and give them the recipe for Manganese Bronze. They'll know what to do
I'd literally go door-to-door explaining manganese bronze to these people like they're children and they still wouldn't make a better cannon than I could. I'm sitting here with the idea for the 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 in my head.