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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoNah, problems arise much earlier. Metals are expensive (proper steel is a thing of the 1700s, try getting proper coke) and your claims might be considered too outlandish for funding of home industrialisation, even making the needed tools might take ages.
Depending on when you are, science might even be considered evil, useless, unless you have very clear, direct and easy use cases (e.g. horse collar, compass, wheelbarrow).
Interesting could be the printing press for problem solving.
Proving electricity is easy, since even static electricity is relatively unexplained for a long time. You already know that metals are great conductors, hell, even what conductance roughly is. You know lead acid batteries. Simple conceptual motor and lead acid batteries together with printing press is probably enough to industrialise many societies early.
Don’t know to get acid though.
pigup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Neve8028@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Depends where you travel back to. If you’re in Europe, then good luck lol.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Remotely related: …lowtechmagazine.com/…/fruit-trenches-cultivating…
Blasphemy@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Actually, I think you just got what you should make first - a simple Gutenberg press. You could probably make it all the way back in the Bronze age, using copper or brass for the stamps and the rest is just wood and rope. You’d just need a basic knowledge of levers and screws, and suddenly you have (relatively) mass-production media.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 year ago
And you need knowledge of the local language they might not even have a written form yet. No point in a printing press when you don’t have symbols to print.