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  1. What if C. H. Turner popularized conditional learning instead of Pavlov?

    Inspired by a quote form the article - This Pioneering Black Zoologist’s Insights Were a Century Ahead of Their Time: "Turner may also have been a step ahead of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. About 13 years before Pavlov published a renowned paper on salivating dogs and the fundamental form...

  2. Mandate of Heaven: A Space Mad China in 1490

    This idea is basically based on a simple idea what if we combine the excellent timeline of Reach for the Skies: A Space Mad USA in 1876 with a fleshed out version of this thread Ming Dynasty and Steam Power and the Ch'ing-yang event of 1490. The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (Chíing-yang meteor...

  3. How useful would earlier “back and forth” carrier pigeon be?

    By 3000 BC, Egypt was using homing pigeons for pigeon post, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, which when taken far from its nest is able to find its way home due to a particularly developed sense of orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of the pigeon, which was...

  4. Entry With A Bang – A Gunpowder Bronze Age
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    From the Age of Claws to the Age of Reason "The human infant, like a shipwrecked sailor cast ashore by the cruel waves, lies naked on the ground, speechless lacking all aids to life when nature first tossed him with pangs of labor from his mother’s womb upon the shores of the sunlit world. He...

  5. AHC/WI: The USA retained its universal child day care program?

    “Many thought they were purely a war emergency measure. A few of us had an inkling that perhaps they were a need which was constantly with us, but one that we had neglected to face in the past.” My Day, September 8, 1945; Eleanor Roosevelt - Eleanor Roosevelt said of the wartime child care...

  6. It Takes Two - Photovoltaic and Semiconductor Revolution in the 1910s

    "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind - but occasionally it takes two." ― (mostly) Albert Szent-Györgyi This short timeline will tell the story of two people who had the chance to change the world. First two parts will be OTL, The third part will be the actual new...

  7. AHC: Most successful Nintendo Satellaview Service possible

    Recently I came across an article about broadcasting game code over radio, which was pretty intruiging but I found the mentioning of the Nintendo Satellaview the most facscinating and at least to me most surprsingly obscure venture. Any idea how to get it more successfull or at least better...

  8. AHC: Alternate GUI (graphical user interface)

    Hi, I just watched I video on GUI by Ross Scott Link and I found the idea of using mouse gestures as a way to navigate quite interesting. A video showing how something might look like can be found here. Obviously it is hard to change people habits once they are set in their ways, but one...

  9. What if more successful/better Medici porcelain?

    Medici porcelain was the first successful attempt in Europe to make imitations of Chinese porcelain. The experimental manufactory housed in the Casino of San Marco in Florence existed between 1575 and 1587 under the patronage of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The body of Medici...

  10. Missing Link: What if the 80s Germany fiber optic plan went ahead?

    Missing Link: The Fight for Fiber Optic or: The missed opportunity for a broadband infrastructure initiative in Germany. During the Chancellorship of Helmut Schmidt a plan was developed to build a huge fiber optic network, beginning in 1985, taking approximately 30 years to be completed. If is...

  11. La Génération Agitée or the Raving Twenties

    The Restless Generation, la Génération Agitée was the generation that came of age during the Great War. Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe outlined their Strauss–Howe generational theory using 1883–1900 as birth years for this generation. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein and...

  12. Eureka! An Ancient Scientific Revolution

    Text excerpts of the poem De rerum naturae, in prosaic form. It was written by Titus Lucretius Carus the scholarchēs of the Minaveaerum. It was written and dedicated to the Academy’s founder the late dictator perpetuo Julius Caesar. From the Age of Claws to the Atomic Age "The human infant...

  13. AHC: Programming stays gender neutral

    This is taken from a akshistorian reddit discussion that I found quite interesting: How could programming, computer stuff, stay a gender neutral hobby?

  14. AHC: Best Case for the Lebanese Space Programm

    Lebanon was the forgotten player in the sixties space race Alasdair Wilkins What would have been the non ASB best case for their programm? What if they, metaphorically speaking, had consistently thrown sixes?

  15. What if Edison invents the Radio/Wireless Telegraph ?

    Simple question how would you the world change if Edison invented (and in this case not stolen from others) the basics of radio technology? Here is background for the actual Point of Divergence I. Edison’s Etheric Force (OTL) II. Mahlon Loomis - First Wireless Telegrapher (OTL) III. Edison's...

  16. What if Juba II colonizes the Canary Isles?

    A Short History of Lichen Dyeing “A number of dyes have been obtained from lichens and the use of lichens to produce dyes has a long history. Dyeing is also the commercially most valued application of lichens and lichen dyes had high monetary value for many centuries until the discovery of...

  17. What if earlier successful xenotransplantation?

    How Pig Guts Became the Next Bright Hope for Regenerating Human Limbs (Excerpt) It seems the basic experiment by Badylak fits right in the early wacky pioneer years of surgery of the beginning of the 20th century. So what if an easy, workable type of xenotransplantation had been discovered...

  18. What if Ronald Reagan was strangled by a chimp?

    The Time Ronald Reagan Was Nearly Strangled By A Chimp by Mark Mancini The fact that actor-turned-president Ronald Reagan once co-starred with a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)provided him with a long-running source of embarrassment after his political career took off decades later. The...

  19. Wisconsin's (Un-)Discovered Yeast

    Wisconsin's (Un-)Discovered Yeast Unnecessarily detailed history and background provided for one of the most obscure, piddling PODs in alternate history? Yes. A lot of fun stumbling upon it and “developing” it into a “timeline”? Hell, yes:cool:. Origins of the Monroe Brewing Company In...

  20. What if Heron invents the Vacuum Pump?

    Heron of Alexandria Hero of Alexandria (c. 10 – c. 70 AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquityand his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition. Hero...
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