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The Shape of Things to Come SUSQ The Beginnings of the Company—Balthasar Nachody and the Imperial Neubrno Heritage Balthasar Nachody was born in 1733 in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia. Nachody’s family had worked for generations in the mining industry of Bohemia and Silesia, and had in...

Thanks everyone! This is definitely giving me places to start looking as I think about this. Now let me see if I can write about the mechanical issues that worry me with greater particularity. So it seems the consensus is that a basic tractor and attachment set-up is feasible. After all, farm...

I've been burned a bit recently by over-enthusiasm with respect to technological speculation. That said, at some point in my timeline I want to really explore what could happen differently with respect to the internal combustion engine. For example, it seems like there could be a kind of legacy...

For the evangelical gentleman of distinction. August 6, 1750 From the pages of The Disinterested Observer The Solution to the Problem of Saxony is the Empire! Even to write these words is to court disapprobation in the extreme. For do they not reverse those uttered by great Christian, then...

Why ever would you be scared for Poland? Surely, Peter the Great's daughter Elizabeth would have to be the most generous, nay selfless, of allies. But things are going to get very messy in the east shortly, as you can tell.

Europe at Equilibrium You'll note the stabilizing of the external borders in most of Europe: everyone has more pressing affairs to attend to than re-litigating who gets Liege, basically. The exception is the east, where Russia is struggling to hold Peter I's gains, the Ottomans are resurgent...

So, it might be interesting for the discussion to note that before Isabella took the throne in 1474, the only woman to rule Castile was a Queen Berengaria for a few months in the thirteenth century, who abdicated as quickly as possible. Point being that women could and did become queens...

Laissez les bon temps rouler Of course this does not show how much of this territory the French have actually settled. Such an image would still show narrow ribbons around the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and St. Lawrence Rivers. But critically, the disruptions to the French agrarian economy...

Reademption Song 1741 Josiah Franklin, in the years since his founding the first sharing library, has focused his attention on the publication of treatises containing useful information for the mass market. Now however Franklin’s idea is to publish his books and periodicals simultaneously in...