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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...

There were people who kept thylacines as pets/watch "dogs" (apparently thylacines were incredibly chill and easy to tame). Maybe something could've spun off from that.

A possible scenario that springs to mind is that things go sideways with the Dogger Bank Incident and the Second Pacific Squadron (aka the Baltic Derp Fleet) manages to piss off the Royal Navy enough for them to stomp on them (it's probably the Kamchatka's fault, as usual). This results in the...

I don't know what you'd call it but I kind of feel like the aesthetics, tech and what not of the period from around 1910 (possibly a bit earlier) to the end of WWI don't quite fit with steampunk and doesn't quite fit with dieselpunk either and so any settings based on a "punkified" version of...

I'm somewhat reminded of an idea someone I knew during my brief and rather half-hearted steampunk phase came up with elsewhere on the internet and which I've posted on here about before. Credit for the above and the blame for the poor punctuation goes to a guy I haven't spoken to in years who...

Would it have been possible for the ORP Piorun, a Polish destroyer whose main claim to fame in OTL is repeatedly charging in to attack the Bismarck at close range while signalling "I am a Pole", to have managed to sink or at least completely disable the battleship in question if they got really...