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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 43961 Gender:	What will they think of next? Feb 10^th, 2024 at 3:15pm Car phone of the future, 1934. Radio of the future, 1949.
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10550 armidale Gender:	Re: What will they think of next? Reply #1 - Feb 10^th, 2024 at 4:33pm Ancient Greeks had a steam jet and there were pistons and valves in pumps. They almost had the steam piston-driven water-pumps of the 1700s. https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/405#:~:text=2As%20with%20many%20very,and%20on...
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 47293 Gender:	Re: What will they think of next? Reply #2 - Feb 10^th, 2024 at 4:34pm Well we know where your head is at Frank... back there in the past, at the End of the World, known as the 'West'.
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Reply #3 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 4:45pm

chimera wrote on Feb 10^th, 2024 at 4:33pm:

Ancient Greeks had a steam jet and there were pistons and valves in pumps. They almost had the steam piston-driven water-pumps of the 1700s.
https://books.openedition.org/pcjb/405#:~:text=2As%20with%20many%20very,and%20on...

They had less motivation to develop that sort of thing because they had slaves.

People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 43961 Gender:	Re: What will they think of next? Reply #4 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 4:53pm
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10550 armidale Gender:	Re: What will they think of next? Reply #5 - Feb 12^th, 2024 at 4:54pm So they didn't think of wagon brakes with slave-cylinders?
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