JonasC11

Mills and engines

Age at landing: 24
From: German, from Stuttgart
Before: Mechanical engineer; built working model steam engines as a hobby
Main skill: Power: water wheels, gearing, steam
Other skills: Calculation, heat and pressure, pipe work
Personality: Earnest and keen, a born lecturer. Keeps checklists for everything.
Strength: Calculates before he builds, and never skips a safety test.
Flaw: Rigid. Freezes when a plan fails. Jealous of Zoe's flair.
Wants: To hear a steam whistle on this planet.
Story arc: Learns to improvise; his insistence on testing every boiler is proved right in front of everyone.
In year 50: Alive, aged 74
First partner: Preet, from month 14
Leads phases: 09 Water, wind and mechanical power
13 Steam power
Helps in phases: 07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
10 Blast furnace, coal, cast iron and rolling
12 Precision and machine tools
15 Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid

Jonas and Preet

Preet comes to draw his model water wheel for the Record and corrects his arithmetic. After that Jonas asks her to check every calculation.

She writes down his failures too. He lectures.