Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper Chapter 1 Aoba Castle, Sendai, Mutsu Province, JapanJanuary, 1635 Riding a horse, thought Terasaka Haru, had one thing in common with walking the deck of a ship at sea: it took time to get accustomed to the motion, but once you did, you no longer thought about it. […]
Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper In “Industrial Alchemy, Part 2: Inorganic Chemical Bestiary” (Grantville Gazette 25), I surveyed the sources and uses of most of the elements of the Periodic Table. However, there were some exceptions: Lanthanides: 15 elements (these, together with scandium, yttrium, and lutetium, are called “rare earth” elements). Actinides: 15 radioactive […]
Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper Introduction Natural gas and its components are important fuels in post-Ring of Fire Grantville. They also have other utilities. In this article, we will try to better characterize Grantville’s natural gas resource and the means by which propane and butane might be extracted from it and put to […]
Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper In part 1, we considered a variety of operational issues for tethered balloons and kites. Here, we will consider the strength and weight of tether materials available in the 1632 universe, possible tethering systems, and how to size the tethers for a particular balloon type and size. We […]
Life at Sea Part 6: Lest You Drown Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper On Aug. 31, 1773, Samuel Johnson said, “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.” In […]
by Iver P. Cooper Previous / Next Lardarello, Grand Duchy of Tuscany 1635 The coach that had pulled up beside the boric acid production facility was black with gold trim and wheel rims painted red. On the door, Lewis Philip Bartolli saw the coat of arms of the House of Medici: five red balls on […]
Previous / Next by Iver P. Cooper A ship is home to its crew for weeks, months, even years. And like a home, a ship should provide air that is fresh and of a comfortable temperature and humidity. It also should provide sanitation facilities. **** Ventilation According to Sir Walter Raleigh, ship cabins were “sluttish […]
Next Introduction and Table of Contents by Bjorn Hasseler Table of Contents Introduction by Bjorn Hasseler The Magdeburg Messenger (1632 fiction) Escape from Moscow by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett The Frog in the Well by Sean Little A Meeting in Midsummer: Part I by Marc Tyrrell The Matthew Grant Letters by George Grant An […]
This is our September 2023 issue. We hope you enjoy it! Next Introduction and Table of Contents by Bjorn Hasseler Table of Contents Introduction The Magdeburg Messenger: An Exchange of Favours by Jody Lynn Nye On the Jerichow Road by SM Stirling and Virginia DeMarce Ill-Met in the Marshes by Garrett W. Vance Indian Tea […]
