07
Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
Earth parallel: up to 1000 AD. Goal: a permanent village, agreed measures, and a written record so that no skill lives in only one head.
| ID | Achievement | About year |
|---|---|---|
| 07.01 | Standard measure of lengththe metre, rebuilt from memory: one master rod, with marked copies for every workshop | 4 |
| 07.02 | Standard weights and volume measuresthe kilogram and the litre, tied to the metre through water | 4 |
| 07.03 | Layout toolssquare, level, plumb line, dividers, chalk line | 4 |
| 07.04 | Parchment, ink and pens | 4 |
| 07.05 | The Recordevery process written and drawn; this book inside the story | 4 |
| 07.06 | Register of births, deaths, pairings and family lineswho is kin to whom, and the settlement's memory of illness and accidents | 4 |
| 07.07 | Written rules and the hearing of disputesthe Landing Rules and every judgment written down; three people drawn by lot hear a dispute | 5 |
| 07.08 | Sundial and year calendarhours, seasons, planting dates | 5 |
| 07.09 | Lodestone and magnetic compass | 5 |
| 07.10 | Calendar of feast daysLanding Day, the harvest, the longest and the shortest day | 5 |
| 07.11 | Surveying kitmeasuring chain, sighting cross, water level | 5 |
| 07.12 | Plan of the settlementshouses and water upstream and upwind; the tannery, the smelters and every later works downstream and downwind | 5 |
| 07.13 | Saw pit and sawn plankssquare timber in quantity | 5 |
| 07.14 | Timber seasoning stackswood dried so it does not warp | 5 |
| 07.15 | Carpenter's bench, planes, drawknife, spokeshave and mallets | 5 |
| 07.16 | Hide glue | 5 |
| 07.17 | Framed joinerymortise and tenon, dovetail, pegged joints | 6 |
| 07.18 | Pole latheturns round parts: handles, spindles, pulleys, bowls | 6 |
| 07.19 | Wooden screw and nutthe first screw thread, cut by hand | 6 |
| 07.20 | Screw press and screw clamps | 6 |
| 07.21 | Barrels, buckets and tubswatertight wooden vessels | 6 |
| 07.22 | Furniturebeds, tables, chests, shelves | 6 |
| 07.23 | School and apprenticeshipevery child reads, reckons and draws, and learns two crafts | 6 |
| 07.24 | Stringed and wind instrumentslyre, fiddle and wooden flute | 6 |
| 07.25 | Spoked wheel with iron tyre | 6 |
| 07.26 | Wheelbarrow and hand cart | 6 |
| 07.27 | Two-wheel cart and four-wheel wagondrawn by oxen and horses | 7 |
| 07.28 | Pulley blocks, windlass and capstana few people lift tons | 7 |
| 07.29 | Lifting crane | 7 |
| 07.30 | Rope walklong heavy ropes and cables | 7 |
| 07.31 | Stone quarry and dressed blocks | 7 |
| 07.32 | Refined sulphur ⚠melted clean and cast in sticks | 7 |
| 07.33 | Saltpetrepurified by dissolving and crystallising | 7 |
| 07.34 | Black powder ⚠ground wet by hand at first, later in the stamp mill; kept under lock, and used only for blasting | 7 |
| 07.35 | Rock blasting ⚠drilled holes, powder and slow match; opens every mine, quarry and cutting from here on | 7 |
| 07.36 | Graded roadvillage to mines, quarry and shore | 7 |
| 07.37 | Timber-frame housesstone footings, brick chimneys, tiled roofs, plank floors | 7 |
| 07.38 | Lightning roda pointed iron rod and a copper strap to wet ground | 8 |
| 07.39 | Workshop rowsmithy, wood shop, pottery, stores | 8 |
| 07.40 | Granary and root cellar | 8 |
| 07.41 | The common storeone safe store for the surplus harvest, tools and implements, with one keeper and one count | 8 |
| 07.42 | Stone-lined well with windlass | 8 |
| 07.43 | Privies, drains and wash housekeeps disease out of the village | 8 |
| 07.44 | Timber bridge over the river | 8 |
| 07.45 | Wooden wagonwayhorse-drawn carts on wooden rails from mine to works; the seed of the railway | 8 |
| 07.46 | Plank-built boat with oars ⚠sealed with tar and fibre | 8 |
| 07.47 | Timber jetty | 8 |
| 07.48 | Infirmarya separate sick house with washable lime-plastered walls, its own water and its own privy | 9 |
| 07.49 | The formularyevery remedy, dose and warning written in the Record, with doses by weight; the strong plant drugs are used only from here on | 9 |
| 07.50 | Bath house and laundryhot water, tubs, soap and a drying yard | 9 |
| 07.51 | Covered drains and cesspitwaste water led away underground and limed | 9 |
| 07.52 | Wooden listening tubehears the heart, the lungs and the unborn child | 9 |
| 07.53 | Delivery forceps and checks before the birththe unborn child's heart heard, and a hard birth helped | 9 |