Civilization manualBook 1: From Bare Hands to Steam and Electricity765 entries · 23 phases · 100 years
The Island

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Every achievement and every person by name.

People

Adam Chair of the council; the safety of the whole group
Bjorn Timber and boats
Chloe Glass and instruments
Diego Maps and minerals
Ehsan The forge
Farah Chemistry
Grace Health, births and sanitation
Hiro Tools and measurement
Imani Fibre and cloth
Jonas Mills and engines
Kofi Hunting and scouting
Luca Stone, brick and building
Mei Clay and kilns
Nadia Furnaces and metal
Omar Fields and water
Preet The Record, the measures and the school
Rohan Electricity
Sofia The stores and the kitchen
Tane The sea: fishing, boats and rope
Ulani Plants, seed and bees
Viktor Mines, fuel and explosives
Wren Animals: herds, draught teams and dogs
Yara Leather and clothing
Zoe Design and invention — the problem solver

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Bag bellows 04.26
Baked-enamel winding wire 14.42
Ball bearings 15.10
Bamboo cups and water tubes 01.12
Bark-tanned leather 08.01
Barrels, buckets and tubs 07.21
Base camp site 01.01
Basket fish traps and river weir 03.03
Baskets 02.17
Bath house and laundry 07.50
Battery room and charging board 14.31
Beam balance and weights 05.07
Beer, wine and mead 08.14
Benzene and aniline from coal tar 11.71
Bicycle 15.14
Birth hut and birth kit 03.40
Bites and stings 03.38
Bitumen from the oil seep 02.27
Black powder 07.34
Blast furnace 10.08
Bleached white cloth and printed colours 11.73
Bleaching powder 11.61
Blister steel 06.10
Blood-pressure gauge 12.38
Bloomery furnace 06.03
Blown glass 11.02
Blue and green vitriol 11.25
Boiled linen bandages, gauze and cotton wool 08.43
Boiler feed pump and steam injector 13.12
Boiler fittings 13.03
Boiler house and brick chimney 13.05
Bolts, nuts and machine screws 12.07
Bonded grinding wheels and tool grinder 12.17
Bone and shell fish hooks with line 02.14
Bone awl and eyed needle 02.13
Bow and arrows 02.21
Bow-drill fire set 01.07
Brass 10.25
Brazing 06.29
Brick houses with glass windows 11.51
Bridges 19.17
Bronze 05.09
Bronze axe and adze 05.11
Bronze bell, horn and signal flags 05.20
Bronze chisels, gouges, punches and drill bits 05.14
Bronze force pump 09.19
Bronze hammers and anvil block 05.12
Bronze healer's tools 05.29
Bronze knives, sickles and razors 05.16
Bronze needles, pins, hooks, nails and rivets 05.21
Bronze pick, wedges and crowbar 05.18
Bronze saw 05.15
Bronze spear and arrow heads 05.17
Bronze tongs and crucible lifters 05.13
Bucket-chain water lift 09.20
Bulk steel converter 15.01
Burial ground 03.44

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Calcium carbide and acetylene 16.10
Calculating tables and slide rule 12.16
Calendar of feast days 07.10
Cam shaft and trip hammer 09.07
Candles 08.32
Cane crusher, raw sugar and molasses 08.40
Canned food 11.50
Carbolic acid 11.63
Carbon disulphide 11.24
Carbon rods 14.21
Carburettor 17.02
Carding machine 09.26
Care of animals 08.07
Care of teeth 03.43
Carpenter's bench, planes, drawknife, spokeshave and mallets 07.15
Carrying gear 02.29
Carved wooden bowls and troughs 02.24
Casein plastic 15.44
Cast iron gears, shafts and machine frames 10.13
Cast-iron stove and kitchen range 10.29
Cast-steel cutting tools and springs 10.27
Cathode-ray tube screen 23.08
Caustic soda 11.22
Cellulose lacquer and enamel paint 20.03
Chain and hooks 06.19
Chain hoist 16.05
Chain saw 17.20
Charcoal clamp 04.07
Charcoal for swallowed poison 03.24
Charging station 15.20
Chlorinated drinking water 11.62
Chlorine and caustic soda by electric current 20.01
Chloroform 11.65
Chromium and stainless steel 20.07
Cine camera, projector and sound film 21.21
Circuit hardware 14.07
Circular saw and wood-planing machine 12.30
Clay air nozzles (tuyeres) 04.25
Clay bread oven 04.13
Clay cooking stove with flue 04.30
Clay pit and prepared clay 04.02
Clay tablets and charcoal on bark 04.05
Clean milk 08.18
Clear conducting coating on glass 20.16
Cleared and hoed garden plots 03.14
Clock pulse generator 23.16
Cloth mill 12.45
Coal gas works and gas light 11.28
Coal mine 10.01
Coal tar, pitch and creosote 11.29
Cofferdam and caisson 19.08
Coke 10.03
Cold ether spray 12.40
Cold-hammered native copper 05.02
Colour-corrected lenses 12.34
Communal long house 03.31
Commutator and brushes 14.14
Compost and manure heap 03.21
Compound engine 13.25
Compound microscope 12.35
Computer built with valves 23.28
Concrete and iron-reinforced concrete 11.45
Concrete dam and reservoir 19.23
Concrete mixer 19.05
Construction crane 16.15
Control tower, radio beacon and runway lights 22.16
Control unit and the stored program 23.27
Copper beads 05.24
Copper still with coiled condenser 11.09
Cotton field 08.47
Council of chosen speakers and the court 12.23
Counting board and tally of the stores 03.09
Covered drains and cesspit 07.51
Crank and connecting rod 09.09
Crank grindstone 06.17
Crawler tractor and bulldozer 17.18
Crop protection 11.33
Crucible cast steel 10.26
Crucibles 04.24
Crystal diode 23.07
Culture dishes, seaweed jelly and warm cabinet 13.30
Cupola remelting furnace 10.11
Cylinder boring mill 12.11

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Paint spray gun 16.14
Pallet 17.16
Paper 08.34
Parachute 22.09
Parchment, ink and pens 07.04
Pasted-plate storage battery 14.30
Pendulum clock 12.29
Penicillin for injection 15.40
Permanent steel magnets 14.06
Photo-electric cell 21.17
Photography 14.41
Pickled and fermented vegetables, dried fruit and jam 08.41
Picks, shovels, hoes, crowbars and sledgehammers 06.22
Pig iron 10.09
Piled foundations and pile driver 19.07
Pilot's licence and the rules of the air 22.10
Pipe and boiler lagging 13.15
Pit ponies 10.06
Pit-fired pottery 04.04
Pitch glue 02.05
Plan of the settlements 07.12
Planing machine 12.12
Plank-built boat with oars 07.46
Plastic film 20.04
Plate punch, shears and hot riveting 12.24
Plate-bending rolls 12.25
Pliers, screwdrivers and wire cutters 16.03
Plywood 22.01
Pneumatic hammer 16.12
Pneumatic rock drill 16.13
Polarising film 20.15
Pole lathe 07.18
Porcelain 11.08
Porcelain candle filter 13.31
Portable air compressor 17.19
Portable electric drill 16.08
Portland cement 11.44
Potash 04.18
Potter's turntable 04.12
Power loom 09.29
Powered grinding and polishing wheels 09.15
Powered lathe 09.16
Powered wire-drawing bench 09.17
Precision grinding machine 12.18
Prepared fibre 08.21
Preserved food store 03.07
Pressure gauge 12.28
Prestressed concrete 19.18
Printed circuit board and plug-in unit 23.20
Privies, drains and wash house 07.43
Programming 23.29
Pronged fish spear 01.18
Propeller airplane 22.06
Public address system 21.09
Puddling furnace 10.15
Pulley blocks, windlass and capstan 07.28
Pump drill with stone bit 02.22
Pumped water supply and water tower 15.32
Punched cards and tabulating machine 23.03
Punched paper tape, its code, punch and reader 23.04
PVC 20.08

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Saddle quern 02.23
Saddle, bridle and stirrups 08.04
Safe-food list 01.22
Safety glass and clear acrylic sheet 22.15
Safety helmet and harness 16.07
Sailcloth and rigged sailing boat 08.31
Salicylic acid and aspirin 15.36
Salt 03.06
Salt water into a vein 12.39
Salt-and-honey drink 03.39
Salt-glazed stoneware 11.07
Saltpetre 07.33
Sand filter beds 11.53
Sand moulding with wooden patterns 10.10
Sand-and-charcoal water filter 04.29
Sandstone grinding slab 02.04
Saw pit and sawn planks 07.13
Saw-toothed cotton gin 09.28
Saws 06.15
Scaffolding and ladders 16.06
School and apprenticeship 07.23
Scraped, brain-tanned and smoked hides 02.15
Screw jack and hydraulic jack 16.04
Screw press and screw clamps 07.20
Screw-cutting lathe with change gears 12.05
Seaplane and flying boat 22.11
Seed collection and seed store 03.12
Seed drill and horse hoe 12.31
Seed selection and breeding record 08.10
Self-exciting dynamo 14.16
Separate condenser and air pump 13.08
Serum against lockjaw 15.37
Settlement office and records office 11.52
Sewers and settling tank 11.55
Sewing machine 12.44
Sewn clothing, bedding, sacks and tents 08.28
Sewn hide clothing, shoes, bags and water skins 02.16
Shadow stick, water clock and counted breaths 04.06
Shaper 12.13
Sharp stone flake 01.03
Shear steel 06.11
Shellac varnish 11.13
Sick hut and the keeping-apart rule 03.42
Silver 05.26
Sinew thread and rawhide lashing 02.06
Slaked lime, mortar, plaster and whitewash 04.15
Smelted copper 05.05
Smelted lead 05.25
Smelted tin 05.08
Smith's forge 06.06
Smith's tool set 06.09
Snares and deadfall traps 03.01
Soap 04.19
Soda ash 11.21
Soft solder and soldering 05.28
Sourdough starter and brewing yeast 04.28
Spanners and wrenches 16.02
Spark plug 17.01
Speaker 21.06
Spear thrower and darts 02.20
Spinning wheel 08.23
Split-stick tongs 01.13
Spoked wheel with iron tyre 07.25
Spring box and covered water point 03.35
Stabilised power supply and cooling 23.21
Stained slides 13.29
Stamp mill 09.14
Standard measure of length 07.01
Standard resistors and capacitors 18.01
Standard weights and volume measures 07.02
Steam blowing engine for the blast furnace 13.19
Steam car 15.17
Steam crane 13.22
Steam hammer 13.18
Steam locomotive 15.03
Steam shovel 15.05
Steam steriliser 13.27
Steam traction engine 15.07
Steam turbine generator 15.27
Steam winding engine at the mine 13.21
Steam-driven generating set 14.17
Steam-driven workshops 13.13
Steam-tight piston, rings and stuffing box 13.07
Steamboat with screw propeller 15.08
Steel building frame 19.09
Steel needles, awls and fish hooks 06.26
Steel surgical instruments 06.31
Steel-edged axes, adzes and chisels 06.13
Sterile salt water and distilled water 11.68
Still house and laboratory 11.16
Stone adze 02.09
Stone crusher and gravel plant 19.03
Stone knives, scrapers and engraving points 02.03
Stone quarry and dressed blocks 07.31
Stone-lined well with windlass 07.42
Stone-tipped spear 02.19
Straightedges and squares 12.02
Stretcher, crutches and a working hand 08.45
Stringed and wind instruments 07.24
Strong aluminium alloy 20.05
Substation with oil circuit breaker 18.08
Suction pump and bored-log pipes 09.18
Sugar cane field 08.39
Sulphuric acid 11.18
Sun-dried mud bricks 04.08
Sundial and year calendar 07.08
Surveying kit 07.11
Suspension insulator 18.04
Switchboard 14.19
Synthetic rubber 20.11

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Tallow lamp 03.11
Tally-post calendar 01.23
Tamed riding and pack horses 03.20
Tape player and recorder 21.20
Taps, dies and standard threads 12.06
Tar-bound road surface 15.13
Tea garden, coffee bushes and hop yard 08.20
Telegraph 14.10
Telephone 14.33
Telephone exchange equipment 21.14
Telephone numbers, the directory and the emergency number 21.07
Telescope 12.46
Television camera and receiver 21.22
Test boiler with weighted safety valve 13.01
The common ground 03.29
The common store 07.41
The formulary 07.49
The hospital 15.41
The island railway 15.06
The island's germs named 13.32
The machine shop 12.20
The mould that kills germs 15.38
The Record 07.05
The standard bead 14.35
The work ground 04.01
Theodolite and builder's level 19.01
Thermometer, barometer and hydrometer 11.15
Thermostat 18.13
Things for children 08.29
Three-strand rope 02.11
Throwing stick and club 01.16
Tidal stone fish trap 01.17
Timber bridge over the river 07.44
Timber jetty 07.47
Timber seasoning stacks 07.14
Timber-frame houses 07.37
Timbered underground mine 06.30
Tinctures and laudanum 11.58
Tinder and kindling store 01.06
Tinplate 10.21
Tipper lorry 17.15
Town plan and building code 19.13
Trained draught animals with yoke, collar, harness and iron shoes 08.03
Transformer 14.37
Transmission tower 18.06
Treadle dental drill and fillings 12.42
Treadle loom 08.24
Tungsten carbide tool tips 20.10
Tungsten metal 14.45
Tungsten tool steel 10.28
Tungsten-filament lamp 14.46
Tunnel 19.21
Turpentine and rosin 11.11
Twisted plant-fibre cord 01.05
Two settlements and one common ground 03.28
Two-piece moulds with clay cores 05.10
Two-state numbers and the algebra of logic 23.05
Two-stroke engine 17.04
Two-way radio for vehicles, boats and aircraft 21.16
Two-wheel cart and four-wheel wagon 07.27
Typewriter and teleprinter 23.01

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