Comment by Leander86 on Why no Roman Industrial Revolution? · 2023-08-07T01:18:12.996Z · LW · GW

Another factor might the development of modern engineering drawing, which showed much better what a machine did and how it did it.  Modern engineering drawing was developed around the beginning of Industrial  Revolution and would have helped spread the new ideas much better than anything that existed before. So, it became much easier to build what others had built, and, even more importantly, tinker with it to improve it.