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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

That's how most technology is:

combustion engines - early 1900s, earlier if you count steam engines
missiles - 13th century China, gunpowder was much earlier
wind energy - windmills appeared in the 9th century, potentially as early as the 4th

Almost everything we have today is due to incremental improvements from something much older.