Yes, and famously the ancient Egyptians used steam power for religious trickery and to open a pair of doors to one of their temples.

The trick is that without much better metallurgy and pipework, it wasn't possible to create the kind of high pressure needed for a steam engine.

Same thing goes for evolution. The rough concept had been around for a while; it took until "deep time"(earth being billions of years old) was proven that we knew that life actually had the kind of time needed to evolve.

Physics: "There are many possibilities for these basic principles upon which all of reality hinges"

Human civilization: "food more better now"

Mankind stronk (and well-fed) 💪💪💪

I don't blame him, it's totally a legit use

No, I didn't make a mistake in the title

The Greeks invented it like 2000 years earlier than that.

The Hero's Engine is a steam engine that was invented in Greece around 50 AD.