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Index of chapters:

Talking with the Planets
Who invented the radio ?
Who invented the radio ? II
Reminiscences of Lenin
The Final Frontier: Tsiolkovsky's Equation
History of the USS
The Fyodorov Society
The Fyodorov Society II
A Knight in Sour Armor
A Knight in Sour Armor II
History of the Telemobiloscope
The other Revolution
Talking Photons
Talking Photons II
When the Sleeper Wake: The life of H G Well
NATHAN the Wise
Red Babel: How the Russian Empire became the Sovetunio; Looking at the past to discern our future
Plutopia: Hans Dominik and the Wandel Reactor
Hippocrates of the 20th Century: The Work of Felix d'Hergelle
History of Cosmism: The Bourgeois Origin
NATHAN the Wise : The history of the world's first Analytical Engine (II)

Movie Viewer of the World Unite!: Happy Atoms by Boris Pasternak
The Physiological Collective I
The Physiological Collective II
Alphabetization, Latinization and Lingua Internacia
The Elders of Thule: Die totale Wissenschaft
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
Empire of the Rising Sun: Dawn of the Nuclear Age
The history of Eugenics in the USS
A Scientific Prohibition:How Moses Parted People from Alcohol
The Fyodorov Society III
Nuclear History II
The Fyodorov Society IV
Nuclear History III
Brava Nova Mondo
The History of RPG
Judging Genes: A Beginner's Guide
Gender and Sex:From Russia with Love
Judging Genes: Hybrid Vigor
Movie Viewer of the World Unite!: Hard to be a God
The Final Frontier: A trip to the Moon
Deciphering the Code of Life
The History of Music: Ahoy-hoy Telharmonium
“The Father of Psychonomics” - Isaac Spielrein
Snake Oil, Horny Goat and China's Destiny
The Hyborian Age of Gaming
The Concrete Player Piano I




“I can never forget the first sensations I experienced when it dawned upon me that I had observed something possibly of incalculable consequences to mankind. I felt as though I were present at the birth of a new knowledge or the revelation of a great truth….
It positively terrified me, as there was present, something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night; but at that time the idea of these disturbances being intelligently controlled signals did not yet present itself to me.
The changes I noted were taking place periodically and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause known to me. I was familiar, of course, with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis, and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes.

The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances, as has been rashly asserted by some. It was sometime afterward when the thought flashed upon my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to an intelligent control. Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental. The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another. A purpose was behind these electrical signals.”

Tesla, Nikola (1901)
In the Collier’s Weekly: “Talking With the Planets

In 1899 while investigating atmospheric electricity using a Tesla coil receiver in his Colorado Springs lab Tesla observed repetitive signals, substantially different from the signals noted from storms and Earth noise, that he interpreted as being of extraterrestrial origin. He later recalled the signals appeared in groups of one, two, three, and four clicks together. Tesla thought the signals were coming from Mars.
Analysis of Tesla's research has ranged from suggestions that Tesla detected nothing (he simply was misunderstanding the new technology he was working with) to claims that Tesla may have been observing naturally occurring Jovian plasma torus signals. Whatever it might have been, the signal inspired Tesla to reach for the stars.

Notes and Sources

This timeline will be about a world were the scientific and artistic Avant-garde triumph. The architects of this new world will be the Inventor Nikola Tesla and the Socialist Revolutionary Alexander Bogdanov. The POD of this timeline is Tesla becoming even more obsessed with Mars than in OTL, oddly enough making him much more productive. The way this timeline is written can be best described as a collage, a work of “art” that is made by attaching pieces of different written material by other authors, to get something surprising and new. I do my best to correctly cite the different sources that go into this work.

Collier's Weekly, February 9, 1901; “Talking With the Planets
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