Railways, steam and electric cars, the power grid

Earth parallel: 1830–1900. Goal: the end state of Book 1 — power, light and transport along the whole island, and surplus energy stored in batteries.

Years 43–5046 entries0 procedures written

ID	Achievement	Thread	Built on	About year
15.01	Bulk steel converter ⚠air blown through liquid iron turns tons of it to steel in minutes	Making	10.02 10.09 10.11 13.19	43
15.02	Rolled steel rails, plate, axles and tyres	Making	10.17 13.13 13.18 15.01	43
15.03	Steam locomotive ⚠	Making	10.20 13.12 13.15 13.16 13.17 15.02	43
15.04	Railway wagons, carriages and brakes	Making	07.27 10.20 10.27 12.30 15.02	43
15.05	Steam shovel ⚠digs the cuttings and banks of the railway; one machine does the work of fifty diggers	Making	13.16 13.22 15.02	44
15.06	The island railwaythe first thirty miles of a line that will one day run the length of the island, signalled by telegraph	Making	07.35 07.44 11.05 11.29 11.45 12.29 14.10 15.03 15.04 15.05	44
15.07	Steam traction enginehauls, ploughs and threshes	Making	12.15 12.32 13.16 13.17	44
15.08	Steamboat with screw propeller	Making	05.19 08.31 13.17 13.25	44
15.09	Drawn steel tubelight, strong frames and boiler coils	Making	09.17 12.27 15.01	44
15.10	Ball bearingshardened steel balls ground round	Making	10.27 12.18 12.21	44
15.11	Roller chain and sprockets	Making	10.27 12.14 12.15 12.21	45
15.12	Air-filled rubber tyre with valve	Making	08.25 11.40 12.26	45
15.13	Tar-bound road surfacecrushed stone bound with tar; a smooth, dustless road for wheels	Making	07.36 11.29 11.35	45
15.14	Bicyclethe test bed for every light vehicle part	Making	07.36 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13	45
15.15	Road vehicle chassissteering, leaf springs, differential gear and brakes	Making	10.27 12.15 15.09 15.10 15.12	45
15.16	Kerosene-fired flash boiler ⚠steam in minutes from a coil of tube	Making	11.35 13.03 15.09	45
15.17	Steam car	Making	07.36 13.16 15.13 15.15 15.16	46
15.18	Light traction battery ⚠	Making	14.30	46
15.19	Electric carmotor, controller and battery; silent, clean, charged overnight	Making	07.36 14.26 14.27 14.42 14.43 15.11 15.13 15.15 15.18	46
15.20	Charging station	Making	14.19 14.31	46
15.21	Deposits and receiptsspare beads left in the strong room of the records office against a written receipt	Society	06.24 08.35 11.52 14.35	46
15.22	Water turbinean enclosed wheel driven by water under pressure	Making	10.12 12.03 12.24	46
15.23	Hydro-electric station at the falls	Making	09.01 11.45 14.36 15.22	47
15.24	High-voltage power line ⚠current sent from the falls to the settlements, the mine and the works	Making	11.07 14.34 14.37 15.23	47
15.25	Island power gridsteam and water stations working together, batteries holding the surplus	Making	14.17 14.31 14.38 15.24	47
15.26	Electric mine and works tramway	Making	10.20 14.20 14.27	47
15.27	Steam turbine generatorsteam spins a bladed wheel directly; far more power from the same coal	Making	12.14 12.18 13.08 13.17 14.36 15.01	47
15.28	Vacuum tubea hot filament, a grid and a plate in an airless glass bulb control a current; the bulb is emptied by a hand pump, then by the mercury pump	Making	11.48 12.26 14.23 14.46	47
15.29	Radio transmittera valve makes a steady wave that carries speech across the island	Knowledge	14.31 14.33 14.43 15.28	47
15.30	Radio receivera valve set and earphones in every settlement	Knowledge	14.32 14.33 15.28	48
15.31	Ice-making and cold store	Food	10.22 11.30 13.23 14.28	48
15.32	Pumped water supply and water tower	Home	10.22 10.30 11.45 11.62 14.28	48
15.33	Motor-driven printing press and the printed Recordthe hand press driven by a motor; the manual itself, a copy in every house	Knowledge	05.28 07.20 08.35 08.37 11.47 12.22 14.28	48
15.34	Receipts as moneythe office prints receipts in fixed amounts with a mark that is hard to copy, and people pay with them: the first currency	Society	15.21 15.33	49
15.35	Acetic anhydride ⚠the strong reagent that turns salicylic acid into aspirin	Making	07.32 11.12 11.21 11.61	48
15.36	Salicylic acid and aspirinthe willow's painkiller made by the pound from coal tar	Health	08.15 11.12 11.22 11.63 13.23 13.27 15.35	49
15.37	Serum against lockjaw ⚠made in a horse and given after a dirty wound	Health	08.03 12.36 13.30 13.32	49
15.38	The mould that kills germsa blue-green mould from spoiled fruit clears a ring in a dish of bacteria	Health	13.30 13.32	49
15.39	Mould broth for woundsthe mould grown in rows of flat sterile bottles on sugar broth; the filtered liquid heals infected wounds	Health	08.40 11.02 13.27 13.31 15.38	49
15.40	Penicillin for injection ⚠the broth concentrated cold, purified and dried; the first true cure for blood poisoning	Health	11.21 11.57 11.64 11.68 12.33 12.36 12.43 14.23 15.31 15.39	49
15.41	The hospitaloperating room, wards, laboratory, steriliser, electric light, X-ray, hot and cold water	Health	07.52 11.51 11.55 11.67 11.70 12.37 12.38 13.27 13.28 14.25 14.40 15.32	49
15.42	Artificial silk ⚠wood pulp dissolved and squirted through fine holes into acid; the first man-made fibre	Cloth	04.07 07.32 08.34 11.04 11.18 11.22 11.23 11.24	50
15.43	Moulded phenol resin ⚠the first man-made plastic, pressed hot into hard insulating parts	Making	04.20 10.24 11.09 11.12 11.63 12.27 13.02	50
15.44	Casein plasticmilk curd hardened into buttons, combs and handles	Making	08.17 11.12	50
15.45	Air conditioningcooled and dried air for the hospital, the stores and the hot workshops	Home	13.23 14.28 15.31	49
15.46	Aluminium by electric current ⚠the first ingot: the light metal that flight will need	Making	11.22 14.21 15.25	50