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moon_custafer) wrote2006-05-18 12:23 pm
moon_custafer) wrote2006-05-18 12:23 pm
Steam Engine Time
Hanne Blank explains the *why* part of history:
Steam Engine Time
This is good, because for some reason this morning I was remembering the Conrad Stargard books, and this is a neat way to explain them: Stargard is a 20th century engineer accidently transported to medieval Poland, and trying to figure out who to help the people there with his knowledge when he is most emphatically not in Manufactured Parts Time (ie, a lot of, "this would be a useful thing, but how do we build it out of wood and iron?").
Steam Engine Time
This is good, because for some reason this morning I was remembering the Conrad Stargard books, and this is a neat way to explain them: Stargard is a 20th century engineer accidently transported to medieval Poland, and trying to figure out who to help the people there with his knowledge when he is most emphatically not in Manufactured Parts Time (ie, a lot of, "this would be a useful thing, but how do we build it out of wood and iron?").