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Weirdly this reminds me of an aviation AU idea of my own that I was contemplating that had a couple of PODs, one of them being the invention of either a superior battery or an early fuel cell by a British educated Anglo-Indian genius who didn't exist in OTL. I never figured out the technical...

I think that chicory and/or grain "coffee" could've been more popular than it is, especially since I've had some that tasted better and, strangely, more like coffee than some brands of instant actual coffee. Admittedly the lack of caffeine is a point against it but there's times when you don't...

According to my dad the ICI I guys weren't. I can't remember all the details but they including such things as generous pay, free uniforms provided, good pensions, loads of paid time off (can't remember the exact number of days but I remember thinking that it was a lot), etc. However, they did...

According to my dad (an NDT technician who worked at ICI and elsewhere) it was largely the fault of the unions. Jobs took forever to be done because of one man one job and a tendency for the men in question to never be where they were needed when they were needed and spend more time smoking or...

What about "engines"? Equally as non-descriptive as "tank" especially back then when the steam age was still hanging in there. In terms of misinformation it could be anything from some sort of earth mover to a mobile water pump to clear out flooded trenches.

What if whatever flaw or whatever that caused the crankshaft of the engine of Percy Pilcher's triplane to break in OTL isn't present/doesn't occur and on 30th September 1899, instead of flying his glider for the final and fatal time Pilcher makes the first successful powered heavier than air...

It was a plane. Well, for a given value of plane. Oh, I just remembered, there's a picture; I have absolutely no idea how feasible that design is and if it isn't then disregard it in favour of one that might be as far as the questions in the OP are concerned.

Okay, I just read a short story where the first powered flight took place in the 1850s (well, sort of; it's complicated), using a very small and very hazardous steam engine for power. So I'm wondering, is that at all plausible and if it is, then what would be the consequences for the...

Not going to lie, that would be an interesting POD, ones with major repercussions long after the war is over. And not just the environmental ones. Very true. IIRC in OTL both sides had an unspoken understanding regarding chemical weapons that boiled down to "we won't use ours so long as you...

Does the Battle of Castle Itter and what Gangl's men were up to before it (i.e. protecting the local civilians from reprisals) count, given that they were technically deserters and the general weirdness that was the Battle of Castle Itter?

The completed "Twin Vipers" timeline (https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-twin-vipers-a-finished-tl-of-the-berlin-moscow-axis.461256/) had multiple fascist powers end up fighting on the Allied side due to Germany being allied with Russia and staying that way. IIRC first Japan...

I'd imagine that the Israelis would still be itching to wipe them out of existence, especially if they got so much as a whiff of someone at the top of their shitlist being there. They might not be able to do anything but they'd want to. They'd really, really want to.

More likely Britain gets to boast about being the country who beat the Nazis twice.

I've been thinking a bit more about my Teapunk idea and I can't decide which ATL time period would be the best. It has to be late enough to give history a chance to divert a sizable distance from OTL but if it's too close to the present it doesn't really seem like it'd be in the spirit of...

Teapunk. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century history wanders off in a direction that results in Britain and Japan ending up on top of the heap and far more closely allied than they were at the height of the OTL Anglo-Japanese Alliance (and, in Japan's case, thoroughly avoiding going...