What if: airplanes were invented around 1810?

What would this primarily affect?
-Civilian air travel and its affects
-War, obviously
-Exploration
-More advanced planes, but earlier?

What wars could have different outcomes?
-American Civil war
-Crimean war
-Taiping rebellion
-Spanish american war
-Boer war?

Would the american civil war have a different outcome? (Being American, Im most interested in this)
-Would 4 engined strategic bombing be a thing?
-How would fort bombardments, trench warfare, and navel engagements be affected?
-Could we see cities like Atlanta bombed to the ground, destroyed by Sherman's air forces instead?

How could this affect war?
-Strategic bombing
-Gunships, maybe?
-Paratroopers?
-More effective scouting/artillery
-The evolution of warfare to be more mobile? Sitting in trenches would quickly be proven as useless in the face of planes. I feel that we could see WW2-esque warfare earlier.

Anyway, just some quick ideas. I would love to read discussion.
 
HOW ARE PLANES INVENTED IN 1810?I see that you are a new here.Unless this is the asb forum,these questions need to be asked first.For an aircraft to be invented,other technologies would have to be invented first-- like the engine.If this occurs,most of history wouldn't have been the same.Furthermore,many of the conflicts you have mentioned most likely would have been butterflied.
 
The existence of a steam engine (or ic) capable of giving the world airplanes would also have given armored cars, or self-propelled artillery, along with steamships.

So LTTW with planes.
 
You would need very early POD before you can have airplanes about 100 years earlier. World would be almost unrecognsible. You just can't pull airplane before you have all necessary technological and scientist knowledge before that. And probably society should be more open for idea flying artificial things.
 
You would need very early POD before you can have airplanes about 100 years earlier. World would be almost unrecognsible. You just can't pull airplane before you have all necessary technological and scientist knowledge before that. And probably society should be more open for idea flying artificial things.
I'm honestly not sure where a POD where be, but I know early aeronautical extermination had already been taking place, so society wouldn't be a problem. I would assume any sort of powerplant for the plane would be steam powered, like a user pointed out on this thread. This was mostly off the top of my head, and my first post, so I wasn't looking for any context.
 
As others have pointed out, the key to practical heavier than air craft is the propulsion system. You might be able to develop a steam power plant but even then you will need to develop other technologies early. To generate steam, you will need liquid fuels-that means oil extraction and refining. To save weight, the boiler and engines will best be made of lightweight alloys-advances in metallurgy and fabrication. Engines will almost have to be turbines-fine machining and metalworking. And once you have these things available, the butterflies will be greater than the effects of air power/travel on its own.
 
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