monostaries

kept lots o things

and the more prosperous cities in italy and france did well in that regard as well

The point of being lost is, it doesn't exist
so you can't know what it was exactly that was lost

but thats also history youre postulating

and not some real technology

in which physical objects still exist

Technology was invented, lost and reinvented in many instances

but 40k and battletech postulate universes where even simple reverse engineering is impossible

its silly really

that is well documented

We lost orange carrots

They had to be remade

people claim things are lost when they really arent

Roman Concrete

constantinople remained unsullied from its inception to 1204

with all sorts of things there, knowledge of ancient technologies of course

they didnt reporudce things because they didnt need to

Just reverse engineer the concrete lmao

this is pure autism, guys

God, I love this server

Another one, the Egyptian writings Solon talks about

they were considered unnecessary to the needs of the current society

Then there's also greek computers that were lost

We get a small glimpse from what Solon passed on, but much of it is lost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

lostech irl

holy shit that's awesome

Also roman steam power

If anything is evidence of time travel it's greece & rome

rome didnt have steam power

they had a spinny thing they found entertaining

It was proposed to use it for power

But the idea was dropped because slaves were currency

someone in the middle ages invented refrigeration too

they just used it for party tricks

So reducing their value would have basically ruined the post-money roman economy

Capitalism is what drives innovation

Probably required too much power to keep things cool for long time

considering that most of what roman slaves did was agriculture

Anything else is stagnating and party tricks

and all the steam engine is good for really is pumping water

assuming you dont have high class metallurgy to make railroads and stuff

i think the slaves jobs wouldve been pretty secure even if they did mechanize it

but they didnt

Imagine if a Roman built a steam boat

can you fucking imagine steampunk rome

to build a steam boat you need paddles

or screws

Or a train

they didnt have the metallurgy for screws

much less a full train

maybe a paddle boat

What would you need screws for

What I’m pretty sure they had screw technology

screws make ships move

theyre how you translate an engines power into propulsion

they didn't even have steel afaik

in modern ships

at least not in any bigger quantities

these are massive screws

youd need proper metallurgy

likewise even making a proper steam engine

would require good steel

to make the furnace

i mean hell

you wanna make a locomotive

the entire thing is solid steel

They knew that steel is sometimes made when you make iron
but they didn't understand how and when it's created

Rome invented screws actually so that'd work

theres a difference between

a small screw

in a wooden block

and a ships screw

They were wood ofc

ship screws are shaped entirely differently first of all

second of all they are massive

wooden screws wouldnt work at all

wouldn't bronze work?

are copper

well ny metal would work

but metal isnt exactly easy to come by

you think they just have huge amounts of it lying around?

the only reason metal was so easy to come by during the industrial revolution

was because they mechanized mining

and they knew how to use chemical solutions to refine ores

the romans had none of that

likewise i dunno if a weaker metal like copper would be able to take the strain

Okay but they'd have probably been able to get there

So what you are saying is, go back in time and save rome?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27_screw

as an aside

yo didnt even have copper plating

on the underside of boats

until well after the 1700s began

Could they make giant steam-drawn scorpion

metal only became super in demand

when cannons came about

cuz those *had* to be made of metal

But having a ship part need to be metal should have a similar effect then