Wikipedia-style alternate-history portal: Roman steam civilization
This is the main page for the alternate timeline where Roman engineering developed high-pressure steam during the late Republic. The project imagines a world of mechanized aqueduct systems, steam logistics, and pressure law centuries before the modern era.
Steamage Rome is the core model: a counterfactual Roman period where steam engines reshape military logistics, mining, law, and urban planning. The timeline includes institutional frameworks such as the Leges de Vaporibus and municipal inspection networks.
Industrial organization appears early, with mechanical maintenance replacing ad hoc craft methods, and legal systems codifying boiler inspection, labor safety, and fuel policy.
In this version of history, steam-powered barges are deployed on the Rhône and lower Danube before 250 CE, creating a continuous imperial materials corridor.
Steam inspections were attached to municipal contracts, making boiler accountability a normal civic requirement long before modern bureaucracy.
