Re: [DL] Inventions

["Stryfe Mac.com" <saintstryfe@mac.com>]

Would a gas engine be the product of Mad Science, without any ghost rock 
being involved, assumg it doesn't?

-Stryfe

On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:23  PM, Steven Walmsley wrote:

>
> I have a question pertaining to different inventions/inventors in the 
> Weird
> West. With the aid of "New Science" how far along has some inventions
> progressed in the Weird West. Main inventions that I find imperative 
> are the
> telephone or "box telephone" invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell 
> and
> the first alternative to a steam engine, a gas powered engine. First 
> built
> in 1861 by Engineer Nicolaus August Otto, he refined his invention after
> reading a newspaper account of the Lenoir internal combustion engine. In
> 1876 Otto had built an internal combustion engine, utilizing a 
> four-stroke
> piston cycle. Now called the 'Otto cycle' in his honor, the design 
> called
> for four strokes of a piston to draw in and compress a gas-air mixture
> within a cylinder resulting in an internal explosion
>
> Also, is there any mention of Thomas Edison in any Deadlands books? How 
> is
> his Electric Lamp coming?
>
> -Steve
>
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