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  1. The original steam turbine woudn't have been up to the job. Turbinia had many improvements, like the dummy piston system to withstand end thrust, but the rpm was impracticably high for a ship and a lot of development was needed before the torpedo destroyers really made sense. It is also believed that the Turbinia stunt was organised with the support of naval officers who saw the potential for turbines.
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  2. The reason? Scottish universities were interested in "Natural philosophy" aka science in the 19th century and produced people like Lord Kelvin and Maxwell. At Oxford and Cambridge the high status subjects were still Latin, Greek, Mathematics and History (though Cambridge had an important geology department, partly because of consultancy fees looking for coal and iron fields.) As a result Scotland was ahead on theoretical engineering, which spread to the North of England. Scotland had electric light before England. Southern English engineering was too trade based and so missed developments like turbines which needed a sound theoretical basis.
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  3.  @vikkimcdonough6153  At the same time as they were still using steam/sail small ships because of their fuel efficiency.
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  4. Spending vast amounts of money to prove the Earth was at the centre of the universe and then employing Kepler to analyse his results and prove him wrong was pretty good.
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