Invention & Discovery Cards
A Civilization-inspired tech tree but for the real life history of science and discovery. Inventions and discoveries presented in illustrated Magic-style cards.
Stories
Gone are the days of the Knights — From a tame horse pulling a chariot to the salaried musketeer that retired the knight — 4000 years of military dominance, none of it planned.Steam diffusion over seventeen centuries — From Hero’s toy to Watt’s engines: a two-millennia ping-pong match between the laboratory and the coal mine, where practical crises forced breakthroughs in physics, and theoretical gas laws powered the Industrial RevolutionToward a Republic of Letters — From Sumerian ledgers toward a republic of letters. Egypt held the reed, Pergamum the hide, China the cheap sheet. Print and learned societies turned copying into correspondence.
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