GURPS Infinite Worlds POD Grab-bag

Likewise, while the fantastic technology of Gernsbach is likely impossible, it's inarguable that a more stable Nikola Tesla, with access to solid private resources from the Morgan family, would have been a considerably more productive inventor. Though broadcast power and telluric weapons are impractical at best, his experiments in vacuum-tube computation, Roentgen-ray generation, and other such fields could have born significantly more fruit, advancing technology along the pathway we followed in OTL even if other roads proved impassable.

Or it could go the other way. Creative men often neglect their careers after marriage. So maybe Tesla settles down, spends a lot of time with the wife and kids. He decides his kids need a certain future so he tries his hand at managing his wife's money and instead blows it all. . . And we all write time-lines where Tesla stays single and ushers in the Voltoic Age.
 
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