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| - The United States saw some technologies from this; new weapons and llttle things like that. Some richer people had new vehicles. We never really saw the Clockwork Age come our way until that day, though. I was living in Chicago at the time with a humble job. When Chicago won the bid for the World's Fair, I was elated. I saved my pennies for a ticket, just barely scrapping enough by the time it came along. I decided to head down to the fair on a Friday. Traffic was horrible, but it wasn't like I could afford a car at the time. The fair had food, music, and was practically America personified in a 600 acre area. I was strolling near the new Statue of the Republic when a shadow crawled across the landscape. A massive airship flew over Jackson Park and landed on a temporary dock in the nearby lake. Banners of red, white and blue were draped across the gondola and an intricate mural of Washington had been painted on the massive rigid structure. The letters Columbia triumphantly declared the identity of the ship, written under the mural for the people under the ship to see. The engines roared through the city. I had heard it in the distance, but I didn't think the noise was being produced by such an elegant airship. -American Air Transit co-founder George Aleman, 1949 Welcome to the Of Clockwork and Men ATL, which explores the various possibilities of steampunk technologies and their impact on history. While primarily a technological ATL, this timeline will have a historical backstory. We will explore how steampunk technologies change the world, including Britain, the rise of the German Empire, the Old West, and the rise of the United States as a world power. I look forward to seeing the marvelous inventions this wiki can introduce to our fantastic world of clockwork, and long-lasting Victorianism.
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