Re: [DL] Inventions

["Glenn Connot" <glennconnot@hotmail.com>]

>Would a gas engine be the product of Mad Science

My impression: No.  THe first engines were kinda lame, and it took them a 
while to find applications for the technology that worked well.  The thing 
about Mad Science is that it is basically an instant breakthrough: real 
science takes time to work out, then develop, then improve, etc., whereas 
Mad Science is ready-to-roll in just a few days or months at most (well, 
years sometimes... but rarely).

Old science hasn't been removed, it's just that the New Science works so 
much faster and better!

Glenn
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>From: "Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: Re: [DL] Inventions
>Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 04:38:43 -0500
>
>Would a gas engine be the product of Mad Science, without any ghost rock
>being involved, assumg it doesn't?
>
>-Stryfe
>
>On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:23  PM, Steven Walmsley wrote:
>
>>
>>I have a question pertaining to different inventions/inventors in the
>>Weird
>>West. With the aid of "New Science" how far along has some inventions
>>progressed in the Weird West. Main inventions that I find imperative
>>are the
>>telephone or "box telephone" invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell
>>and
>>the first alternative to a steam engine, a gas powered engine. First
>>built
>>in 1861 by Engineer Nicolaus August Otto, he refined his invention after
>>reading a newspaper account of the Lenoir internal combustion engine. In
>>1876 Otto had built an internal combustion engine, utilizing a
>>four-stroke
>>piston cycle. Now called the 'Otto cycle' in his honor, the design
>>called
>>for four strokes of a piston to draw in and compress a gas-air mixture
>>within a cylinder resulting in an internal explosion
>>
>>Also, is there any mention of Thomas Edison in any Deadlands books? How
>>is
>>his Electric Lamp coming?
>>
>>-Steve
>>
>>
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