King Helü of Wu
Banned
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A train has to have a steam engine to run it.
Assuming that a Newcomen engine is too weak for the job(I long to be face-slapped for this assumption), this question can be paraphrased as:
When is the earliest possible Watt-ish engine given the technological realities of the day. Was the time gap between Newcomen engine and Watt engine (around half a century) purely caused by people not having the idea of inventing it?
In other words, if I bring the Watt engine blueprint to Thomas Newcomen, would the invention of the new steam engine still be hampered by technological shortcomings like, say, metalworking technologies of the day? What are the obstacles?
And how long it would take to change it from a waterpump to a method of transportation?
Is the rail a problem?
A train has to have a steam engine to run it.
Assuming that a Newcomen engine is too weak for the job(I long to be face-slapped for this assumption), this question can be paraphrased as:
When is the earliest possible Watt-ish engine given the technological realities of the day. Was the time gap between Newcomen engine and Watt engine (around half a century) purely caused by people not having the idea of inventing it?
In other words, if I bring the Watt engine blueprint to Thomas Newcomen, would the invention of the new steam engine still be hampered by technological shortcomings like, say, metalworking technologies of the day? What are the obstacles?
And how long it would take to change it from a waterpump to a method of transportation?
Is the rail a problem?