When steam engine was constructed in fact there was no theory of thermodynamics. Heat engines theory was developed by Carnot which was 10 years old when steam engine was constructed by James Watt. So as technology here was present and works well without any mathematics, there was no means of theory for such mechanisms, and then no other than empirical by trial and error way to develop better solutions.
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