The Difference Engine expanded

I was thinking of ideas for my first real time line. One thing that popped in my head would be based off of the POD in The Difference Engine where Charles Babbage successfully creates the machine and the Radical Industrialists Party comes into power in Great Britain.
I was reading a thread about early nuclear power and realized exactly where this would go. In the late 19th century this supercharged quasi-steam punk England is the place to be for up and coming inventors. Marie Curie, Planck, Marconi, Becquerel, Roentgen, Edison, and Tesla all wind up in a yearly contest in London for inventors. Their talents are scouted out by the crowns agents and they are all given access to nearly unlimited funds and resources. They also are able to calculate vastly more than in our TL because of the mechanical computers available. The result is discoveries that shouldn't have been made until the 1950's.
My time line will chronicle the meetings, the state of the world in 1900, the earliest spaceflight, and a lot of mishaps along the way
Would anyone read that?
 
Yes, I read the original novel after all.

Of course, what you've proposed would have to be posted in the Alternate History Writer's Forum and not in the Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900 Forum.

well yea im going to post it in the writing part, but the idea is a Post 1900 Alternate history
 
well yea im going to post it in the writing part, but the idea is a Post 1900 Alternate history


The idea is Before 1900 because that's where your POD lays.

For example, Corditeman is currently writing an entertaining but fundamentally flawed time line concerning a British-controlled Heligoland during an alt-WW1. That time line is on the Before 1900 board because it's POD is before 1900.

You can and should discuss the ideas behind your fiction on this board. However, because you're writing fiction you'll be more interested in what is "kewl" for the story than what is actually plausible. While your focus should be on "kewl", that focus means we'll be able to help you less than we can.
 
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