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Suppose that the internal combustion engine is invented before the steam engine is; the IC engine comes earlier than IOTL, while the steam engine arrives later. What are the effects on the industrial revolution?

Or is this even possible; did the internal combustion engine require lessons learned from the steam engine before it? Or, perhaps, did the steam engine need to be invented to create the ability to invent the internal combustion engine?
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