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by dan-robertson
1109 days ago
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The discussion around steam engines is generally that coal mines were the appropriate place because early steam engines were very bad and there wasn’t good transport so they could only really go in places with a plentiful local supply of coal. (There is also a requirement that coal be in sufficient demand for the steam engines to be worth it. To some extent, the bad transport meant that a lot of the price of coal was in the transport so the price of the coal for the steam engine was lower as it didn’t include that transport). I don’t really think chip making is much like that. I wouldn’t say that chip making was the first industry to be automated by computers either. |
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