Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond: Alternate History Stories

Volume 11 #15: Adventures in Transportation

Previous Adventures in Transportation: An Examination of Drags, Carts, Wagons and Carriages Available in the 17th centuryWritten by Karen BergstralhThe intention of this piece is to acquaint the 1632 aficionados with the types of wheeled and non-wheeled land transport available for moving heavy and bulky items. Considering that the up-timers will have a variety of […]

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Volume 11 #14: Steam: Taming the Demon

Previous / Next Steam: Taming the DemonWritten by Kevin H. EvansDISCLAIMERThis article is not intended to provide all the information needed to design and build actual boilers. Many skills and cross checks are needed to ensure the safe design and construction of pressure vessels. This article is to promote the understanding of steam technology, and […]

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Volume 10 #19: The Feast

Previous THE FEASTby Anette PedersenGuildmaster B in a fair-sized northern European town is giving a party to celebrate his second son’s engagement to the daughter of another guildmaster. Come and let me show you what’s going on.The StreetThe street leading past the house is not one of the main streets through the town, so it’s […]

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Volume 10 #18: All Roads Lead to…

Previous / Next ALL ROADS LEAD. . . .By Iver P. CooperA seventeenth-century visitor might well think that all roads lead to Grantville, not Rome, because down-time roads pale by comparison. “Captain Gars,” riding on Route 250, noted its “perfect flatness,” and considered it to be “the finest road he had ever seen in his life.” (1632, Chap. […]

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Volume 10 #17: Herd Immunity

Previous / Next Herd ImmunityBy Vincent W. ColjeeLife, disease and death in the 1630sImagining life in a small town in Germany in the 1630s is difficult for the average twenty-first century dweller. Picture awaking from an interrupted night’s sleep, courtesy of the local swine brawling in the alley below your bedroom window. Extracting yourself carefully […]

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Volume 10 #16: Crude Peniccilin

Previous / Next Crude Penicillin: Potential and LimitationsBy Kim Mackey“That which we know frequently impedes us in acquiring new knowledge.” Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French physiologist.Background and Early History of PenicillinThe Age of Disinfection began with the work of Pasteur and Lister in the 1860s and 1870s. While this initial work focused on external disinfection, doctors and […]

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Issue 9 #6: X-Rays!

Previous / NextX-Rays! Iver CooperX-rays may be used for medical imaging and treatment, metallurgical examination, and chemical characterization. How soon will this be possible in the 1632 Universe?X-RaysX-rays are a high-energy form of electromagnetic radiation. On the electromagnetic spectrum, they lie in between ultraviolet and gamma rays. Surprisingly, there isn’t an exact definition of X-rays, […]

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