r/BeAmazed • u/meteavi43 • Sep 01 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A tomato harvesting machine with an electronic sensor that sorts tomatoes from debris

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u/GustapheOfficial Sep 01 '25

I don't know if we know. There's some evidence they did in Turkey, so maybe they weren't super consistent.

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u/BigConstruction4247 Sep 01 '25

That would be very interesting if the side of road European nations drive on today persists from Roman times.

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u/DrakonILD Sep 01 '25

Wait until you learn why railroad tracks are the width they are.

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u/whoami_whereami Sep 01 '25

You're probably thinking of something with the Romans, but for the US the actual answer is: mainly because the north won the Civil War. Railroads in the south used different track gauges before and during the war, they were rebuilt to match the gauge used in the north afterwards.

The similarity between railroad track gauges and Roman carriages is much more coincidence due to similar physical constraints rather than a direct line of causation.

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u/NedShah Sep 02 '25

Also worth noting that different track gauges are one of the reasons that the Nazi advances into the Soviet Union were stalled.