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		chucksmash 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: The Roman Industrial Revolution that coul... The "Who invented the steam engine?"[0] section of "The Book of General Ignorance" refers to a "brilliant essay" by Arnold Toynbee that imagines a global Greek empire enabled by a rail network derived from combining the aeolopile and the Diolkos. I'd love to read that essay but they don't cite it and I have yet to come across it myself. [0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=1Mjd2GCRPmAC&newbks=1&newb...

GolfPopper 68 days ago [–]

The essay you're looking for is "IF ALEXANDER THE GREAT HAD LIVED ON" in Part IV of Some Problems of Greek History, Arnold Toynbee 1969.

chucksmash 68 days ago | [–]

Thanks for the pointer. Looking forward to tracking down a copy.

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