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08-10-2006, 01:58 AM

Hi Paul,

Yes, your duplicate post has now disappeared. OK, back to the topic....

It seems that your evidence is limited to one or two industries - glass and iron tubes. That's enough to conclude that technological progress didn't go through a period of deceleration ?

Quote: So far so good, by your dictum - "this is how we do it and have always done it" the Roman should be slow at best to adopt the new technology and its possibilities But in fact the very opposite occurred

You misunderstood what I meant. I'm talking about pace - by that I mean cumulative technological progress as took place during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century which almost happened in 2nd century Rome (AD). I didn't mean pace as in the rapid adoption of a new invention.

What you're saying, I believe, doesn't conflict with nor negate what I'm saying. I acknowledge that technological progress wasn't 100% arrested during Roman times. In fact, as I just said, they were on the cusp of igniting the Industrial Revolution a full 1,600 years before it finally happened. But since they failed to do so, they left the world to slog at a snails pace towards full mechanization.

Theo

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Lack of technological progress in late Roman Empire - by Eleatic Guest - 04-27-2006, 12:57 PM

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Re: Lack of technological progress in late Roman Empire - by Theodosius the Great - 08-10-2006, 01:58 AM

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Re: Lack of technological progress in late Roman Empire - by Robert Vermaat - 09-03-2006, 04:38 PM

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