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The steam engine has been around for 2000 years.
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But that remained as it was for 2000 years until someone in the UK said, actually, that mechanical force discovered by Heron from Alexandria could actually move a steam loom.
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And then it took 2000 years, sorry, to develop like, you know, coal systems and then a steam engine.
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And then from there, uh, to get gunpowder, you know, we went from 2000 years to 200 years to 20 years to five years.
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