Steam’verse™ Timeline

Rev. 1

First Century AD – The first known Steam engine is created by the Greeks. Thought a joke by the Romans, it was relegated to operating toys and doors. The ideas and writings of the steam engine were lost in the fire at the Library of Alexandria.

1206 - Al-Jazari describes a double-acting reciprocating piston pump with a crankshaft-connecting rod mechanism.

1509 - Leonardo da Vinci described a compression-less engine.

1551 – The first new experimentations in steam power results in a rudimentary steam turbine device developed by Taqi al-Din.

17th century: English inventor Sir Samuel Morland uses gunpowder to drive water pumps, essentially creating the first rudimentary internal combustion engine.

1629 - Another simple steam turbine device developed by Giovanni Branca.

1672 - Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of a Jesuit mission in China, builds the first steam-powered vehicle.

1673 - Christiaan Huygens describes a compression less engine.

1690 – Miskatonic University is founded in Arkham Massachusetts.

1698 - The first practical steam-powered 'engine' is developed as a water pump by Thomas Savery.

1709 - Bartholomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, a Portuguese Jesuit priest, made the first Aerostat: the Passarola. The Aerostat flew from Casa da Índia and landed on Terreiro do Paço.

1712 - The first commercially-successful engine is developed incorporating technologies discovered by Savery and Denis Papin, the atmospheric engine, and is invented by Thomas Newcomen, which paves the way for the Industrial Revolution.

1780: Alessandro Volta builds a toy electric pistol in which an electric spark explodes a mixture of air and hydrogen, firing a cork from the end of the gun.

1781 – James Watt patents the sun and planet gear. James Watt also goes on to invent the throttle valve to control the power of the engine, and a centrifugal governor to keep the engine from running away.

1784 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard fitted a hand-powered propeller to a balloon, the first recorded means of propulsion.

1791 - John Barber receives British patent #1833 for A Method for Rising Inflammable Air for the Purposes of Producing Motion and Facilitating Metallurgical Operations. In it he describes a turbine.

1794 – The Boulton and Watt company is formed to exclusively manufacture steam engines. Robert Street builds a compression less engine whose principle of operation would dominate for nearly a century.

1798 - Tipu Sultan, the of the city-state of Mysore in India, uses the first iron rockets against the British Army and wins the first war.

1800 - Richard Trevithick introduces engines using high-pressure steam, providing engines more powerful than previous engines and able to be manufactured small enough for transport applications and resulting in technological developments and improvements in manufacturing techniques.

1801 - Richard Trevithick builds and demonstrates his Puffing Devil road locomotive. Due to increasing reports of paranormal occurrences in humans having odd and unusual abilities, Miskatonic University opens the “Psionic Research Department” with input from the Psychology and Physical Sciences departments.

1806 - Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz builds an internal combustion engine powered by a hydrogen and oxygen mixture.

1822 – Charles Babbage discusses the principles of a calculating engine in a letter to Sir Humphry Davy.

1823 - Samuel Brown patents the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially.

1824 - French physicist Sadi Carnot establishes the thermodynamic theory of idealized heat engines, scientifically establishing the need for compression to increase the difference between the upper and lower working temperatures.

1825 - Charles Babbage creates the steam powered Difference Engine designed to tabulate polynomial functions with funding from Sir Humphry Davy.

1826 - American Samuel Morey receives a patent for a compression less "Gas or Vapor Engine."

1838 - A patent is granted to William Barnet for in-cylinder compression.

1840 – Charles Babbage develops the Analytical Engine with funding from the British government.

1849 – Charles Babbage develops the Advanced Analytical Engine with the assistance of the original Analytical Engine and his son Henry Prevost Babbage.

1852 – First steam-powered airship flight by Henri Giffard. Miskatonic University adds a Psionic Studies degree.

1854 - The Italians Eugenio Barsanti and Felice Matteucci patent the first working efficient internal combustion engine in London but did not go into production with it.

1856 - Pietro Benini realized a working prototype of the Barsanti-Matteucci engine, supplying 5 HP. In subsequent years he developed more powerful engines—with one or two pistons—which served as steady power sources and began the trend of replacing steam engines until 1888.

1857 – Invention of the Geissler tube by the German physicist and glassblower Heinrich Geissler.

1860 - Belgian Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir produces a gas-fired internal combustion engine similar in appearance to a horizontal double-acting steam beam engine, with cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, and flywheel in which the gas essentially took the place of the steam. This was the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers.

1862: German inventor Nikolaus Otto designs an indirect-acting free-piston compression less engine whose greater efficiency won the support of Langen and then most of the market, which at that time was mostly for small stationary engines fueled by lighting gas.

1863 - Dr. Solomon Andrews invents the first dirigible airship and devised the first fully steerable airship in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Andrews also invented a sewing machine, a barrel making machine, fumigators, forging presses, a kitchen range, a gas lamp and a padlock which has been used by the U.S. Post Office since 1842.

1865 – Solomon Andrews then organizes the “Aerial Navigation Company” to build commercial Airships and establish a regular line between New York and Philadelphia.

1869 –The Advanced Analytical Engine gains a rudimentary form of Artificial Intelligence.

1870 - Siegfried Marcus put the first mobile gasoline engine on a handcart in Vienna.

1873 - Discovery of the photoconductivity of the element selenium by Willoughby Smith.

1876 - Nikolaus Otto, working with Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, develops a practical four-stroke (Otto cycle) engine. The German courts, however, did not hold his patent to cover all in-cylinder compression engines or even the four-stroke concept, and after this decision, in-cylinder compression became universal.

1878 - The idea of the Telectroscope, a visual transmission and reception device, is introduced by the French writer and publisher Louis Figuier. Along with Nicola Tesla, inventors and scientists such as Constantin Senlecq, George R. Carey, and Adriano de Paiva began to work on the reality of the Telectroscope.

1879 - Karl Benz is granted a patent for his internal combustion engine, a reliable two-stroke gas engine, based on Nikolaus Otto's design of the four-stroke engine. Later, Benz designed and built his own four-stroke engine that was used in his automobiles, which became the first automobiles in production.

1881 - French inventor Gustave Trouvé demonstrates a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity.

1882 - James Atkinson invents the Atkinson cycle engine. Atkinson’s engine had one power phase per revolution together with different intake and expansion volumes, making it more efficient than the Otto cycle.

1883 - The first electric-powered airship flight is made by Gaston Tissandier.

1884 – Nicola Tesla moves to NY and goes to work for Thomas Edison. Tesla improved the electrical systems and convinced Edison to use A/C current for long distance transmission then received a $50K bonus. The first fully controllable free-flight is made in a French Army airship, La France, by Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs. The first modern steam turbine is invented by the Englishman Charles A. Parsons, whose first model was connected to a dynamo that generated 7.5 kW of electricity. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow invents the scanning disk.

1885 – Tesla experiments with Tesla Coil, Gyro’s and Anti-Gravity/Gravity Engine. German engineer Gottlieb Daimler receives a German patent for a supercharger. Carl Benz builds his first Motorwagon. The steam turbine is scaled-up by American, George Westinghouse.

1886 – Tesla forms “Tesla Electric and Mfg”. Miskatonic University opens the first Ether research program along with the first Mechanology degree as a separate study from general engineering

1887 – First Anti-Gravity vehicle rolls out, propelled by a steam turbine and propeller, outmoding the rise of the current airship designs and most self powered wheeled vehicles. Invention of high power x-ray cathode tubes, brushless A/C motor and radio. Miskatonic University miniaturizes the Analytical Engine.

1888 – Invention of Tesla Coil-Boiler revolutionizes steam power and out modes the internal combustion engine. A/C Transmission lines go on-line. Tesla antigravity plate experiments for floating cities begins. David Schwarz opens the “Schwarz Anti-Gravity Ship Yard” in St. Petersburg Russia. Tesla Electric and Mfg develops the Ether-tube and the attractor beam. The Aerial Navigation Company begins building the new anti-gravity ships. The small anti-gravity ships start being called Skiffs and the larger anti-gravity ships Aero-ships. Carl Benz changes over to building Luxury Skiffs. The U.S., Britain, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and Belgium all rush to convert their ocean bound navy’s to Aero-ships and Skiffs. All other countries cannot afford to do so. De Beers Mining Company is formed by Cecil Rhodes.

1889 – The countries converting to anti-gravity ships begin to phase out their ocean going ships selling them to less affluent countries.

1890 – The Daimler Company is formed to build steam turbines, generators and Skiffs. Tesla introduces his idea of an automaton man; Miskatonic University picks up the idea and works with Tesla to build a steam powered prototype.

1891 – July 30, Tesla becomes Naturalized US Citizen. First high altitude platform deployed at the edge of the atmosphere. The Ether-drive is invented by Tesla. Tesla opens a new company, “Tesla Ether-drive Mfg”. Miskatonic University starts experiments with the Gyro-Globe concept. Ferdinand von Zeppelin opens the “Zeppelin Aero-Ship Yard” outside of Berlin and begins to build military and commercial transport Aero-ships. Most old airships and wheeled vehicles are sent to the poor countries, or retired.

1892 – First extra-atmosphere Ether-drive flight. Development of Ether-ships begins. Plans are made for a mission to moon. Miskatonic University adds Telsa’s “and/or gate” concept to the Analytical Engine, plus develops a higher level of processing with the first “memory” with quartz crystals and the ether-tube, resulting in the first Navitas Brain. The Daimler Company licenses Tesla’s patent to build Ether-drives.

1893 – First manned mission to the moon, taking just minutes, via an Ether-ship built by the Zeppelin Aero-Ship Yard with a crew from Germany and Britain. First moon base is established by Britain, then one by Germany. A mission to Mars and the Asteroid belt is planned by Britain. Miskatonic University unveils the first steam powered automaton man using an Advanced Analytical Engine; know as an Automaton, is placed at the Aerial Navigation Company for automated work in the factory.

1894 – First trip to Mars and the asteroid belt with a British crew, taking 15 days, leaving a small unmanned base for future travels. The British and U.S. and governments commission the Ether Navigation Company of New Jersey, formerly the Aerial Navigation Company, to build military Ether-ships. The German Government orders the development of military Ether-ships by the Zeppelin Aero-Ship Yard; Russia follows suit with the Schwarz Anti-Gravity Ship Yard. The Tesla Electric and Mfg Co. begins building Automatons for factory work.

1895 – The first mini-Ether-drives are put into some Daimler Skiffs. Miskatonic University commissions a research Ether-ship with the Ether Navigation Company. Miskatonic University unveils the first fully independent Automaton with a Navitas Brain; this Automaton became known as a Humaton.

1896 – Britain puts the first colony on Mars, 23 military personnel. Russia establishes a moon base. George Westinghouse beats out Nicola Tesla in a bid for the rights to license the Miskatonic University patent of the Humaton and begins producing them for work on commercial Aero-ships and Ether-ships. The dumber Automatons continued to be manufacture by the Tesla Electric and Mfg Co. for use in factories.

1897 – Miskatonic University launches an Expedition to Mars and the Asteroid Belt, leaving a small research base on Mars and bringing back a small asteroid with an attractor beam, putting it into orbit above Earth in order to begin advanced testing of the Gyro-Globe concept. Germany puts the second colony on Mars, 27 military personnel and their wives. Dr. Herbert West of Miskatonic University begins physical reanimation experiments. Building on the work of previous scientist, Jan Szczepanik, who with Ludwig Kleiberg obtained a British patent for the first fully functional Telectroscope.

1898 - The Spanish-American War occurs, lasting 7 days. The first Humaton aboard the U.S. Aero-ship USS Maine becomes self aware. A consortium of Chicago business men hire out a commercial Ether-ship to bring in a large Asteroid to build a new Gyro-Globe to be named New Chicago.

1899 - Dr. Herbert West of Miskatonic University reveals his success in bringing back to life a dead person. Miskatonic University completes the first Gyro-Globe in low Earth Orbit and names it Luna Minor. De Beers Mining Company sets up a base on Mars to begin mining asteroids for materials. The Telectroscope comes into mainstream use with the militaries of earth.

1901 – Dr. West opens the first Reanimation Clinic in Arkham, Massachusetts and he begins regeneration experiments. With the growing numbers of residents on the Moon, Miskatonic University proposes converting the moon to a Gyro-Globe with the use of Humatons; the U.S., Britain, Russian Empire and Belgium support the idea and invest the money for the conversion with work beginning by year’s end.

1903 – The Ford Skiff Company is founded in Dearborn, Michigan by Henry Ford. The Arkham Reanimation Clinic adds body regeneration to its repertoire and new clinics open up in Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, and St Petersburg. The moon conversion is complete and it is now a full fledge Gyro-Globe, complete with a magnetic field, gravity and an atmosphere.

1904 - Prince Edward of England decides to build a Gyro-Globe as it looks like his mother will never pass the throne to him with the proliferation of regenerative treatments; he names it New London. Miskatonic University starts a Gyro-Globe conversion on the Martian Moon of Phobos. Modern mass production techniques allow for the Telectroscope to become widely used for communications, replacing the telegraph and much of the radio traffic.

1905 – The Gyro-Globe New Chicago is completed and is in a stationary medium height orbit directly above Chicago.

1908 – The Ford Skiff Co. develops the first assembly line mass production method. The Gyro-Globe New London is completed and Prince Edward leaves England declaring himself Royal Prince of New London, with the Queens blessing of course. The Arkham Reanimation Clinic now has clinic in every major city on Earth, the Moon, Luna Minor, New London, New Chicago and Mars.

1909 – The Phobos Conversion is complete and the name is changed to New Arkham. Miskatonic University opened a satellite college on New Arkham.

1910 – Britain sends exploratory missions to Venus and Jupiter. Germany heads to a large asteroid in the Asteroid Belt and drags it to a high Earth orbit to construct a Gyro-Globe. Russia responds and pulls as large of an asteroid in to a high Earth orbit to build a new Gyro-Globe.

1911 – All the new masses in orbit around the Earth begin to effect tides, seismic activity and the weather. A council of the most powerful nations convenes on Luna Minor.

1913 – The Tesla Steam Turbine is invented and outmodes all forms of piston and previous turbine steam engines.

1914 – The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand sparks off the “Great War”. The German Gyro-Globe project is stopped when the war begins.

1917 – The U.S. joins the war effort.

1918 – June 21st marks the end of the War!

1924 – Germany completes the Gyro-Globe started with Ceres and renames it New Berlin.

1925 – Welcome to the Steam’verse™…

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