industry

this timeline is a reboot of my first ever timeline called What if Nintendo Stayed in the Arcades (V1) and a return to form for my projects. which i kept making and trying to get bigger and bigger until i went into a project so large that i quit and reflected on what project i should do; and...

https://warspot.net/300-voroshilov-abroad http://www.tankarchives.ca/2013/04/bovington-t-34-and-kv-1-impressions.html Very interesting read, however the fact that the KV-1 and T-34 only arrived for proper study and inspection in mid-late 1943 for the british and August 1942 for the americans...

Why was Early Modern Britain so conductive to this kind of development, and also have it succeed and not other areas of Earth? What was so special about Britain in this era of History?

Do you think the Industrial Revolution could have happened earlier in Europe if the Black Death didn't strike in the 1300s? By the 1300s, Medieval Europe was a very advanced and well-organized civilization. The knowledge of Western European monasteries, and the engineering expertise of the...

What could've been an earlier date in European History when an Industrial Revolution could have occurred? For example, I remember reading that some French Monasteries, and the Venetian Arsenal have been getting close by the early 1200s towards a standardized proto-assembly line kind of...

Okay, so your challenge here is to make industrialization more extensive. Worldwide. Yes, you read that right. Make industrialization more extensive worldwide. Ideally (although this is very implausible), this results in pretty much every nation force-marching their industry forward...

Excluding the ethnicities from the discussion, what would the ideal borders for various European countries be? What interests me is having most of Europe as developed as it's possible. What would the optimal borders be? What about natural resources? How much of the land would they need to make...

That's a fairly broad question, but considering the factors of industrialisation, beyond the availability of resources and the existence of knowledge and expertise, would the climate also impact the likelihood of developing industry? Part of this interrogation stems for instance from the...

The Railroad and What it Stands for in America Steve Glischinski for Trains Magazine: March 2019 In anticipation of the Union Pacific celebrating the Golden Spike Centennial, it's only fair we look at the progress and changes American Railroads enjoyed. The mistakes and hardships they suffered...

Could the industrial usage of asbestos have been prevented? Could the replacements for it have been used instead of asbestos? Or was it inevitable due to the properties of the material?

What is the most advanced a society can get without steam engines and such? Animal pulled trains? Paddle wheel boats powered by human labor? Breech loading rifles? Thoughts? Possibilities?

One of the problems for Greece when it went to war with Italy in WWII was it's lack of industrial automotive base. In OTL, different major manufacturers (Ford, Chevy for example) set up plants in different European countries, including in Eastern Europe. Greece is a central location for both...

In Europe, labor shortages in manufacturing and mining sectors after World War II caused many Western European nations to sign labor recruitment agreements with Turkey and North Africa(or to recruit labor from colonies in Britain’s and France’s case). But in an ATL, what if Western European...

How can we get a TL in which Communism falls in Eastern Europe around the time as it did in OTL, but most of the countries that formed the former East Bloc decide to hold on to the State-owned industries they built up during Communist times (particularily in the manufacturing of consumer...

What if instead of returning most of the surviving German prisoners of war at the end of WW2, the Soviets forcibly recruited not just those with rocketry knowledge in Operation Osoviakhim, but almost all of the German POWs, aviation knowledge or not, to gain 2 million extra industrial workers...

What is the earliest a practical steam Engine can be built? Practical means that it's not a mere toy, but can be used by public and private organizations as a mean to improve administrative or military efficiency or to produce profit. Hero's aeolipile is a steam engine, but doesn't fulfill the...

Where did most of the mills, factories, refineries and assembly lines come from in the United States? What region of the United States shared more than a vast majority of their industry? For planes, trucks, tanks, artillery small arms, etc. etc... Which crucial cities were most responsible for...