technology

How could Carthage have created a professional army, instead of mercenaries? Correct if I'm wrong but isn't the reason that they didn't was because Carthage had a lot of skilled people in the capital (Carthage). So, why didn't they just levy troops from Iberia, Berber North Africa, Sicily, or...

So, with the 20th century warships have gotten big. Very big. They are typically too large for rivers. However some rivers are much bigger than others. For instance the St. Lawrence is pretty deep, so a bit of dredging allows large ocean cargo ships to get as far as Montreal. Kolkatta meanwhile...

So I've been reading a little about the history of personal computing and computing in general in the late 70s up to the early 90s, before the current market stabilized around 'Wintel' computers, there were many competing technologies and standards, and many different systems for home computers...

The gatling gun, invented in 1861 by american Richard Jordan Gatling, is perhaps the most famous of the early machine guns, being depicted/used in various occasions such as in wild west flicks or african and asian colonial ventures. However, most of the gatling gun's use was confined to the...

Cybperpunk's most basic definition is a genre of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology. Other subgenres have branched out from cyberpunk, the most notable of which being "steampunk", which is defined as a genre of science...

With a POD after mental modernity of Homo Sapiens (therefore, no Neanderthal World and there still has to be an ice age), advance technology as fast as possible. My thought is to have an agricultural revolution across the Shebelle River as soon as possible. The Shebelle is an extremely fertile...

How could the stalemate and attrition of the Western Front from September 1914 to March 1918 be avoided? Could technology or tactics change to allow a mobile war? Or could changes to the political landscape allow for manuever?

I didn't not find this outlandish enough to put in ASB but others might disagree. Lets say that all events regarding electricity in ancient times happen but everybody from William Gilbert to Michael Faraday, who would later inspire Andre-Marie Ampere, Georg Ohm, and James Watt never happen...

The qanat was an ancient Persian technology to collect subterranean water by building a sequence of channels starting (underground) in the mountains and sloping down into irrigated farmland. It is actually still used today in Iran. This technology spread to Armenia and Kurdistan, but as far as...

In the 550s AD, two Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China into the Byzantine Empire for Emperor Justinian. This created the Byzantine silk industry, a thriving source of income for the Eastern Roman Empire. Byzantines held a monopoly on silk for centuries, until the Normans captured...

Every so often, we have a thread talking about what would have happened if the point contact transistor had been invented and/or adopted en masse earlier. What needs to happen for the age of the transistor to begin earlier? If, for example, promoting it in 1926 wouldn't help mainly because...

Prologue: It seems like such a simple idea. Why not add two pieces to the saddle, hanging down on either side, for your feet to rest in while you ride a horse? After all, humans seem to have domesticated the horse around 4500 BCE. The saddle was invented at least as early as 800 BCE, yet the...

Nowadays, a lot of new technological inventions and scientific discoveries come from places like China and Japan, and one could argue that the world would not be as advanced if it weren't for their recent contributions. So say, if Brazil, Mexico, and other countries with various political and...

What Pod's could be used to get technology as advanced as it is in Call of Duty Black Ops 3. To get an idea of what the technology is like in BOP 3, I suggest you watch the trailers . Especially, the "Ember" trailer. Link- Official Call of Duty®: Black Ops III "Ember" Tease - YouTube Try to do...

So, it is a common wisdom that medieval agriculture and medieval agricultural technology were much more advanced than ancient Roman agriculture. Because I'm not a specialist of the matter, I asked you weather and how the medieval agriculture was superior to the ancient one? Had they better...

The City of Water: A Venetian TL The flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never in Venetian history was there so traumatic an event as those of 1380 in the very heart of the city, events which...