industrial era

Let's say that, by a combination of avoiding at least some of the unlucky breaks that did major damage to them (e.g. Stephen of Blois getting blackpilled about the crusade and abandoning it literally the day before the crusaders took Antioch and inadvertently convincing Alexios that the whole...

If that were true the. There would not be any Soviet Union or Cold War. However in order for this to happen the lower classes would need to be satisfied with the capitalist system. Workplace conditions would need to be improved and there would need to be far less economic exploitation of the...

In the Lap of the Himalayas – A Timeline on Nepal Authors Note:- As a half-nepali, it is absolutely incensing to me how different and thus, more prosperous Nepal could have easily been should a few incidents have been different. Today we live in a Nepal that is poor, desperately trying to play...

So assuming that for whatever reason the industrial revolution (and all of its consequences) never occurs. Furthermore, all of the events leading up to it such as the European Agricultural revolution, are minimized or negated. So how do the weapons and strategies of war develop without...

So there's this thing called the Jacquard machine which was used to program powered looms to make specific patterns. How widespread (as in being used in different industries) could this technology become within 1800s? And what would be the social and economic implications of fully automated...

Idea totally stolen from Wolfneuron's thread in Chat ( What does your ideal city look like ) but applied to a different context : We're in the late 19th century, the power of coal, oil and gas has been harnessed, and electricity is starting to show its potential. Populations are growing faster...

In brief, the industrial revolution was born in OTL England out of a handful of interrelated conditions: A rising middle class; The development of new technologies which enabled the industrialization of a thriving cottage industry (in England: the spinning jetty and other machines useful in...

So in retrospect it's obvious to see the full impact that the Industrial Revolution and the unfettered use of coal has had on the environment and on human populations in the 19th Century, and it would probably be possible to argue further that there was already a certain awareness of these...

This is a thread for Alternate Ideologies (preferably those that appeared in the mid 1800s-early 1900s, so modern/industrial ones). The ideology could be an alternative/analogue to an existing ideology, an ideology that could have arisen at the time, an OTL ideology that could have gained more...