Quote Originally Posted by CBR View Post
The Hero Engine is far away from being a proper steam engine so it would not be worth much. It took a long list of inventions and discoveries to get something useful.

Maybe someone could have invented the printing press a lot earlier than Gutenberg. That would have changed a lot IMO.
Thought the Chinese invented the printing press before Guttenberg.

I know people did invent what was very very good for the time different kinds of carbon steels but it was all very isolated and never led to any great leap in technology cos the only use was weapons