Gas Lamp alt history (Napoleonic era

Gas Lamp alt history in Napoleonic era, such as Steam Tech,


Now First off the Steam Engine was developed fully in 1798 in England, also a proper Sub as well


So what Advance Tech can we get away with,


LW
 
Robert Trevithick apparently developed an early steam powered road vehicle which a local magnate Lord de Dunstanville was interested in financing. Legend has it that he and his crew celebrated their success a little too freely with ale and crashed on the way to his Lordship's residence. If true, all it needs is someone saying "Best keep a clear head til his Lordship sees it lads. Don't count your chickens.." and you could have had steam traction engines and carriages thirty years early. And butterflied away the first instance of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle!
 
Gas Lamps also First appeared in London in 1809, also the Frankenstein Monster was created in this Time Period as well,


LW
 
Robert Trevithick apparently developed an early steam powered road vehicle which a local magnate Lord de Dunstanville was interested in financing. Legend has it that he and his crew celebrated their success a little too freely with ale and crashed on the way to his Lordship's residence. If true, all it needs is someone saying "Best keep a clear head til his Lordship sees it lads. Don't count your chickens.." and you could have had steam traction engines and carriages thirty years early. And butterflied away the first instance of being drunk in charge of a motor vehicle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Joseph_Cugnot
 
Well since in the Napoleonic Era Steam Power was the Atomic Power of it's era, but as you know it wasn't fully used until the 19th Century, still good help on that steam cart.


LW
 
Stories always grow in the telling but it sounds like Trevithick had better road handling and weight distribution than Cugnot. He was a serious practical engineer.
 
Stories always grow in the telling but it sounds like Trevithick had better road handling and weight distribution than Cugnot. He was a serious practical engineer.

Sure he was. But he also worked thirty years after Cugnot. With thirty years of devolpment, Cugnot's machine could certainly be improved.
 

Kaze

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In 1783 a new paddle steamer by Marquis de Jouffroy, Pyroscaphe, successfully steamed up the river Saone for fifteen minutes before the engine failed. Bureaucracy and the French Revolution thwarted further progress by Marquis de Jouffroy. It would take a lot of convincing and lot more engineering on his part to have Napoleon to accept it.
 
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