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> Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only.

I read somewhere that one of the problems in antiquity to develop useful machines was the abundance of slave/captive labor. Why do you want to create a complicated inefficient first version of a machine when you have cheap humans being to do the task?

parent kartan 10 years ago

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