Recent content by SPJ

The likely problems provided by the Appalachian mountains in CSA TLs is one that intrigues (and also confuses) me, and is something I don't think has been analyzed in any fiction I am aware of. Since boarders along mountain regions are very hard to manage I imagine that in a CSA TL the USA and...

I'd love to see a double barreled version! I wonder if a similar system could have been used in some single shot breech loading rifles

I have been trying to research details on the Gardner gun and I was wondering if you could help. Do you know the details on the differences between the different models of the Gardner in regards to weight and efficiency? I am wondering which would be best as a mobile machine gun. Or if the...

Steam turbine technology could have been invented much earlier than in OTL. I met the author of The Guns Above series a few years ago and they explained how the basic principle of the steam turbine was being used to spin meat over a fireplace as far back as the 1500s in the Ottoman Empire. It is...

Gatling Gun Tacanka are very plausible. Just put a Gatling in the back of a wagon! That setup is even used in one of the Call of Juarez video games Also reminds me of that not too bad, not too good, but still fun western The War Wagon! Or that scene from the 3:10 to Yuma remake

I still think a Winchester 1876 modified with something like Browning's gas operated system, or Maxim's recoil operated system, would be an intimidating weapon. I have another link that details more on Rufus Porter's airship and his plans to use it as a means of transcontinental travel to...

I mentioned that earlier about John Brownings "Flapper" modification to a Winchester that proceeded his design of the M1895. I'd like to think that it could work on a Henry rifle or a Winchester 1866 I also have been doing more research into airship design and found out about an American named...

pattontank12 you done milking me for ideas yet? I enjoy sharing ideas, but I'm sad to see no one else is sharing much.

Well if you want to delve into genetic engineering then you are probably going to throw out the plausibility you were working towards in the first place for the WWW setting. You could take inspiration from real life examples of genetic engineering, but don't go much further than that if you...

I talk with another member a few years ago with an idea they introduced me to of the Indian-Territory/Oklahoma becoming a neutral independent state in the case of a CSA vicotry TL. It would function as a border buffer akin to Belgium between France and Germany or Thailand between French-Vietnam...

What part of the thread focuses on that. Not sure if I have the time to read through the whole thing A Japanese CSA alliance would be interesting. In particular if members of each country find a connection through their cultural ideas of hierarchy. Samurai families in Japan and in the CSA the...

Punkalicious! Agreed that it takes more, but many African civilizations had a good foundation to build upon that was comparable to situations in the USA around the early 1800s. The ruler of the Marina kingdom that I mentioned earlier, Queen Ranavolina, was even trying to industrialize...

Now that sounds like a world I would want to see! I have had similar plans for a TL I have been fleshing out for a few years, starting in the mid 1800s and turning into a steampunk-post-apocalyptic-Crimson Skies type of world I think some Sub-Saharan African groups could achieve more...

Not only reminds me of the WWW movie but another film that was a favorite for me as a kid titled Tale Tale. The plot of the movie revolves around American Legends like Paul Bunyon, and the villain of the movie is a land hungry industrialist with a very Steampunk-aesthetic. His henchmen even use...

Haha, a cool looking but very non-functional design! How are the cartridges supposed to load into the side of the cylinder like that! Maybe under certain circumstances. According to Wikipedia Louis Pasteur was able to develop a Rabies vaccine without knowing that a virus caused it, and viruses...