Skip to main content
Worldbuilding

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

7
  • $\begingroup$ It seems like the "inventor with right gumption and determination, coupled with charisma, foresight, and ..." from my answer, and the "you can have him develop technologies early" from this answer go right hand-in-hand. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 17:59
  • 6
    $\begingroup$ And if Napoleon were to have won, one could imagine James Clerk Maxwell being imprisoned, killed, or co-opted into a different line of research, thus setting back the development of electromagnetic theory. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 2, 2019 at 21:24
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ His trial and later execution had nothing to do with agriculture. In this context “Ferme générale” was the name of the tax and customs office. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 3, 2019 at 14:52
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ @Evpok Woops, edited, thanks. Between the famine, worthless paper money, fake charges about tobacco and the name, I had it confused. History lessons are now so far away... $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 14:17
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ @CarlDombrowski Indeed, the Babbage computer revolution is the plot of The Difference Engine, the Steampunk forerunner novel. $\endgroup$ Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 14:18