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kingkawn
on July 15, 2019
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The Haya people from contemporary Tanzania began making steel 2,000 years ago.
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi385.htm
simonebrunozzi
on July 15, 2019
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Hmm... And so? Hardly the first. [0] Although, I admit, I wouldn't have thought that Tanzania would be so advanced in that era.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_metallurgy
kingkawn
on July 17, 2019
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Your citation was about iron metallurgy in Rome, not steel.
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