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Copyright (c) Grantville Gazette http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Generated by www.PressPublisher.com Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:11:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Better_Foundations__Part_2__Putting_Concrete_to_Wo Iver P. Cooper http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Better_Foundations__Part_2__Putting_Concrete_to_Wo Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:58:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Better_Foundations__Part_1__An_Introduction_to_Con Iver P. Cooper Lots to do with concrete. Lots and lots . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Better_Foundations__Part_1__An_Introduction_to_Con Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:46:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Safety_First__Industrial_Safety_in_1632__Part_Two_ Iver P. Cooper Taking care of the workers . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Safety_First__Industrial_Safety_in_1632__Part_Two_ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:34:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Fire_Breathing_Hogs Kevin H. Evans http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Fire_Breathing_Hogs Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:13:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Safety_First__Industrial_Safety_in_1632__Part_One_ Iver P. Cooper How to stay healthy in an unhealthy working environment . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Safety_First__Industrial_Safety_in_1632__Part_One_ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:47:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Unintended_Consequences__Dealing_with_the_Populati Walt Boyes Where did all those people come from? And what are we going to do with them? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Unintended_Consequences__Dealing_with_the_Populati Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Wingless_Wonders Kevin H. Evans Up, up and away . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Wingless_Wonders Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:23:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Seeing_the_Heavens Iver P. Cooper We'll see Pluto yet! http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Seeing_the_Heavens Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:22:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Standing_on_the_Shoulders_of_Giants__Mathematics_A William Truderung No, it's not the New Math. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Standing_on_the_Shoulders_of_Giants__Mathematics_A Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:37:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Plausibility_Denial_or_Truth_is_Stranger_Than_Fic Gorg Huff Truth? Which one? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Plausibility_Denial_or_Truth_is_Stranger_Than_Fic Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:03:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Scraps_of_Fashion Lisa Satterlund The little black dress really is a classic . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Scraps_of_Fashion Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:54:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Soundings_and_Sextants__Part_Two__Celestial_Naviga Iver P. Cooper Getting around the world isn't so easy without GPS . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Soundings_and_Sextants__Part_Two__Celestial_Naviga Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:28:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Importance_of_Having_a_Pig__Food_and_Preservat Anette Pedersen Getting set for winter . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Importance_of_Having_a_Pig__Food_and_Preservat Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:56:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/What_s_For_Dinner__Typical_Dishes_From_1632_ Anette Pedersen You can't know you don't like it unless you try it . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/What_s_For_Dinner__Typical_Dishes_From_1632_ Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Tell_Me_What_You_Eat__and_I_ll_Tell_You_Who_You_Ar Anette Pedersen More on food and diet in Early Modern Europe. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Tell_Me_What_You_Eat__and_I_ll_Tell_You_Who_You_Ar Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:11:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Soundings_and_Sextants__Part_One__Navigational_Ins Iver P. Cooper Getting from Point A to Point B is harder than you think . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Soundings_and_Sextants__Part_One__Navigational_Ins Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:14:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Steam_Car Kevin H. Evans Well, a car is a car . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Steam_Car Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:12:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_High-Stepping_Beauties Kevin H. Evans Trains and more trains . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_High-Stepping_Beauties Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:58:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Theobroma_Shell_Game Karen C. Evans Ummmm . . . chocolate . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Theobroma_Shell_Game Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:53:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Second_Hand_Help Vincent W. Coljee More on protecting our heroes from disease . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Second_Hand_Help Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:59:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Geared_Locomotive_or__What_Wood_You_Shay_to__ Kevin H. Evans Trains, trains, trains . . . are going to make a comeback . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Geared_Locomotive_or__What_Wood_You_Shay_to__ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:41:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Metallic_Fusion__Putting_it_Together_in_1632 Kevin H. Evans Just what does welding take? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Metallic_Fusion__Putting_it_Together_in_1632 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:58:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Guilds_101 Karen Bergstralh Rules, rules, rules . . . everywhere you go . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Guilds_101 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:57:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Feast Anette Pedersen Guildmaster B in a fair-sized northern European town is giving a party to celebrate his second son's engagement to the daughter of another guildmaster. Come and let me show you what's going on. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Feast Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:55:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/ALL_ROADS_LEAD Iver P. Cooper A seventeenth-century visitor might well think that all roads lead to Grantville, not Rome, because down-time roads pale by comparison. "Captain Gars," riding on Route 250, noted its "perfect flatness," and considered it to be "the finest road he had ever seen in his life." (1632, Chap. 57). Rebecca Abrabanel likewise was amazed by the "incredible perfection" of the first up-time road she saw (1632, Chap. 5). http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/ALL_ROADS_LEAD Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:49:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Herd_Immunity Vincent W. Coljee Imagining life in a small town in Germany in the 1630s is difficult for the average twenty-first century dweller. Picture awaking from an interrupted night's sleep, courtesy of the local swine brawling in the alley below your bedroom window. Extracting yourself carefully from between the siblings sharing the bed with you, you arise and count your bedbug bites. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Herd_Immunity Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:33:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Crude_Penicillin_Potential_and_Limitations Kim Mackey The Age of Disinfection began with the work of Pasteur and Lister in the 1860s and 1870s. While this initial work focused on external disinfection, doctors and scientists were soon looking for ways to use substances for "internal disinfection," that is, to rid the human body of disease-causing organisms. Unfortunately, these initial efforts were limited. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Crude_Penicillin_Potential_and_Limitations Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:24:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/White_Gold Kerryn Offord As the gentle winds blow, you look out from the veranda of your plantation house over the acres of sugar cane. What you see isn't fields of cane. What you see is fields of gold. The white gold called sugar, slowly growing to maturity. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/White_Gold Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:18:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Daily_Beer Anette Pedersen Beer was food. Before the potato arrived in Northern and Central Europe, barley, rye and oats were the main sources of nutrients. Of these, barley was the easiest and most robust crop. Barley isn't that good as bread or porridge, so almost the entire harvest was brewed into beer. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Daily_Beer Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:16:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Tempest_In_a_Baptistry Terry Howard The question of re-baptism and the distress it caused in the sixteen hundreds, including what has at times been described as bloody murder, is still with us. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Tempest_In_a_Baptistry Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:14:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Sound_of_Mica Iver P. Cooper Capacitors (also called "condensers") are one of the most basic of electronic components. Their most fundamental electrical characteristic is their capacitance (ability to store electrical energy). So how do you make a capacitor? The simplest one consists of two parallel conductive plates, and an intervening "dielectric." You can actually use a stack of plates, not just two, but the conductive and dielectric layers will alternate. One wire will be connected to the "odd-numbered" plates, and a second wire to the "even-numbered" ones. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Sound_of_Mica Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:09:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_in_1632_Part_3 Rick Boatright In our two previous discussions of telecommunications in the 1632 series, we focused on radio communications uniquely available to up-timers ("Radio in the 1632 Universe," Grantville Gazette, Volume One) , and to wired communications ("So You Want to do Telecommunications in 1633," Grantville Gazette, Volume Two). In this article we will discuss radio options available to down-timers both for transmitters and receivers. This will require a brief discussion of radio theory, which we will restrict to no more than one equation. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_in_1632_Part_3 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:38:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Aluminum__Will_O_the_Wisp Iver P. Cooper There is no doubt that aluminum is a wonder metal. Pure aluminum has a density only about one-third of iron, it is as reflective as silver, and a good conductor of heat and electricity. When exposed to air, it quickly acquires a protective coating of aluminum oxide, which shields it from further corrosion. Alloys of aluminum are extensively used as structural materials in the construction of buildings and vehicles. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Aluminum__Will_O_the_Wisp Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:28:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/New_France_in_1634_and_the_Fate_of_North_America Michael Varhola 1634 was a pivotal year for the indigenous peoples of North America. It was in that year that the French Jesuit missionaries, in spite of their highest motives, set in motion a series of events that led ultimately to the destruction of those whom they came to both civilize and save for the greater glory of God. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/New_France_in_1634_and_the_Fate_of_North_America Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:27:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Refrigeration_and_the_1632_World_Opportunities_and Mark H. Huston While putting this article together, I have learned more than just the basic history of refrigeration, which by itself is fascinating. (In fact, I knew quite a bit to start before I started this, but that is another story.) I have learned much more about how truly complex life really is. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Refrigeration_and_the_1632_World_Opportunities_and Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:35:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Harnessing_The_Iron_Horse_Railroad_Locomotion_In_T Iver P. Cooper At the first "cabinet meeting," Mike Stearns says, "We got rail tracks leading most of the way from the mine to the power plant, but as far as I know there isn't a locomotive anywhere around. We may have to haul it by truck." http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Harnessing_The_Iron_Horse_Railroad_Locomotion_In_T Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:33:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Railroading_In_Germany Carsten Edelberger The railroads will be the steel backbone of the inter-modal rail/water transportation system of the United States of Europe (USE). The first rail line will provide a link for Grantville into the existing road-and-river transportation network and to the capitol in Magdeburg. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Railroading_In_Germany Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:31:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Mass_Media_In_The_1632_Universe Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett This article is to run in conjunction with Chris Penycate's discussion of the material technology required to produce down-time records and record players. In addition to Chris' hardware, this article discusses the software of the media industry down-time, the challenges and the requirements to create a "mass media" in early modern Europe. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Mass_Media_In_The_1632_Universe Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:30:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Mechanical_Reproduction_Of_Sound_Developing_A_ Chris Penycate and Rick Boatright Sound, no matter how complex, is just waves like the ripples in a pond. It can be considered as the displacement of molecules from their place of rest. A more technical definition would be: Sound is a series of compression and rarefaction waves in a substance, solid, liquid or generally in our experience, gas. Our aim in recording is to precisely reproduce these waves in another place and/or at a different time. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Mechanical_Reproduction_Of_Sound_Developing_A_ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:16:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Jews_of_1632 Douglas W. Jones With Jewish characters occupying such a prominent place in the 1632 story universe, it is important to accurately recreate the Jews of that era. What I have written in the following is intended as a handy resource for anyone contemplating using Jewish characters in fiction they set in this world. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Jews_of_1632 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:12:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/On_the_Design_Construction_and_Maintenance_of_Wood Jerry Hollombe This essay started out to be about what it takes to build an airplane using wood, wire, dope and fabric. It's still about that, but it's also about why there shouldn't be a down-time aerospace industry, nor much of an air force, in the first decade or so post Ring of Fire. I say "shouldn't" because what actually happens is up to the fiction authors and, in my experience, when works of fiction are created, plot and drama trump the details of reality every time. Still, if you're going to break the rules, you should at least know what they are. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/On_the_Design_Construction_and_Maintenance_of_Wood Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:10:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Bouncing_Back_Bringing_Rubber_to_Grantville Iver P. Cooper Chemistry Professor Joe Schwarcz writes, "It's hard to fight an effective war without rubber. Fan belts, gaskets, gas masks, and tires are critical to the war effort." While he had modern warfare in mind, Grantville's war machines—modified cars and trucks—need rubber to remain functional. In 1633, Quentin Underwood insisted that "developing a rubber industry should be a top priority." http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Bouncing_Back_Bringing_Rubber_to_Grantville Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:01:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Exegesis_and_Interpretation_of_Up_timer_Printed_Ma Francis Turner Derived from my Hobson's Choice story, this article is about a subject that I think people frequently think is simpler than it actually is. It is my belief that down-timers who get their hands on purloined up-time books will generally have a hard time figuring out what is being talked about. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Exegesis_and_Interpretation_of_Up_timer_Printed_Ma Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:55:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG10 Paula Goodlett Wow! Who knew? Way back in 1999, when people started writing fan fiction for 1632, who'd have thought it would grow like this? This is our tenth volume—and the fifth in 2006. And there's no lack of material for the next volume, either. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG10 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:53:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG9 Paula Goodlett Wow. Here we go again. Grantville Gazette, Volume Nine. Who knew, back a few years ago, just how many people would be interested in the continuing soap opera of Grantville, WV, United States of Europe? I certainly didn't, but I spend part of every single day being happy that I picked up that book with the pickup truck and hillbillies on the cover. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG9 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:50:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG8 Paula Goodlett And here we go—on time, just as promised. Grantville Gazette Volume 8 is ready for our discerning readers. Just what is going on in Europe these days of 1632 – 1635 or thereabouts? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG8 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:48:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG7 Paula Goodlett Eric said, in the preface to Grantville Gazette Volume Five: "Sigh. Not one of these stories deals with Ye Big Picture. Not one of them fails to wallow in the petty details of Joe or Dieter or Helen or Ursula's angst-ridden existence. Pure, unalloyed, soap opera, what it is." And we continue in our grand soap operatic tradition with Grantville Gazette (count 'em) Volume Seven. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG7 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:45:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG6 Eric Flint Volume 6 of the Gazette is coming out three months later than we'd projected. There are three reasons for that, which are closely connected. The first reason is that our copy editor fell behind, for various reasons including some health problems. The second reason is that she's also one of the copy editors for Baen Books, with many other assignment. And the final reason is that the launch of the new online magazine, Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, further complicated the situation because the Gazette's copy editor is now also one of JBU's copy editors. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG6 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:34:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Grantville_Brickmakers_Primer Kerryn Offord Making bricks is easy you say. Mankind has been making them for millennia. You dig up some clay, mold it to the desired shape, and then fire it until it is hard. Easy, straightforward, anybody could do it. Right? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Grantville_Brickmakers_Primer Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:27:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/What_Replaces_the_SRG Grantville Firearms Roundtable The SRG is the standard muzzle-loading rifle of forces allied with USE. SRG stands for "Struve-Reardon Gevar," named after the manufacturer and designer of the weapon. "Gevar" is the German term for rifle. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/What_Replaces_the_SRG Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:19:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/In_Vitro_Veritas_Glassmaking_After_The_Ring_Of_Fir Iver P. Cooper In the early seventeenth century, there was already a vigorous international trade in glassware. The world center for glassmaking was in Venice, and the Venetians were most famous for tableware and glass mirrors made of the colorless cristallo. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/In_Vitro_Veritas_Glassmaking_After_The_Ring_Of_Fir Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:50:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG5 Eric Flint Well—hallelujah—we managed to get Volume 5 of the Gazette out pretty much on schedule, about four months after the publication of Volume 4. As I said in my preface to that issue, I'm hoping to be able to maintain a triannual publication schedule for the magazine. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG5 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:44:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Looming_Challenge Pam Poggiani Grantville needs people to work in the munitions factories. And the steel mill. And the brick factories. Where will they come from? Why, all those poor women who have to spin and weave all the time can be emancipated right away—just build a spinning jenny and power up those looms! Grantville needs more cloth, to make uniforms and to provide everyone with a change of clothing. What can be done? Why, build a spinning jenny and power up those looms! Now, wait just a doggone minute—it is not that easy! http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Looming_Challenge Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:35:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/How_To_Keep_Your_Old_John_Deere_Plowing_Diesel_Fue Allen W. McDonnell The Ring of Fire has left many of the farms around Grantville scrambling to train enough horses for the fall harvest. About half of the tractors that came through the Ring Of Fire were designed to burn gasoline and with the help of the agriculture department they will be converted to use pressurized natural gas in its place in 1631. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/How_To_Keep_Your_Old_John_Deere_Plowing_Diesel_Fue Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:33:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Drillers_In_Doublets Iver P. Cooper I don't want to be critical of coal mining, especially not where Mike Stearns can hear me. But the fact remains that coal has some serious disadvantages, both as a fossil fuel and as a source of organic chemicals. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Drillers_In_Doublets Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:29:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/How_to_build_a_Machine_gun_in_1634_with_available_ Grantville Firearms Roundtable The firearms round table that produces these articles on firearms doesn't always reach agreement on a specific issue. They didn't on this one, and asked me how to proceed. Since I don't see any reason the fictitious universe of the 1632 series should be any less contentious than the real one, I told them to produce both views and we'd run them simultaneously in the magazine. So. The question now raised is: which of these alternatives will be chosen in the series? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/How_to_build_a_Machine_gun_in_1634_with_available_ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:00:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG4 Eric Flint Once again, alas, I need to apologize for the delay in producing this volume of the magazine. In my preface to Volume 3, I confidently predicted that we'd be able to publish the next volume in late January or February. Instead. . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG4 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:33:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Flints_Lock Grantville Firearms Roundtable In 1633 Eric Flint and David Weber give us our first glimpse at the type of firearm Grantville introduced to arm its allies. Many fans of the series were surprised that more advanced weaponry was not produced. To better understand why a muzzle loading flintlock rifle was chosen, rather than the pet design of every fan, requires a look at many problems faced by the Grantvillers and their understanding of those problems. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Flints_Lock Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:25:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Impact_Of_Mechanization_On_German_Farms Karen Bergstralh What will happen when Grantville introduces nineteenth century farm equipment to seventeenth-century farmers? Will there be a rapid adaptation of the new machines followed by a similarly rapid increase in productivity? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Impact_Of_Mechanization_On_German_Farms Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:20:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Iron Rick Boatright The most dangerous mammal in North America kills over one hundred thirty people each year, and seriously injures another twenty nine thousand. The most recycled material in North America was dumped in landfills until the late 1970s, but now, nearly 100 percent of that material contains recycled content. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Iron Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:27:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Secret_Book_Of_Zink Andrew Clark We present to you for the first time translated into English, the remarkable and exciting news from Doctor Erasmus Faustus, as originally printed in the Fraenkische Wochenzeitung. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Secret_Book_Of_Zink Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:24:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Quick_and_Dirty_Treatise_on_Historical_Fencing_ Enrico Toro It's easy today to have a very distorted view of what fencing was at the time of the Ring of Fire. Real fencing is not Errol Flynn or the Three Musketeers. Hollywood swashbuckling movies set in the early modern era feature unrealistic flamboyant fencing. The only other fencing moderns see is lightning-fast Olympic fencing. Both of these are far different from the fencing taught in the 1630s in hundreds of academies throughout Europe. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/A_Quick_and_Dirty_Treatise_on_Historical_Fencing_ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:28:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG3 Eric Flint First, I need to apologize for the long delay between the publication of Volumes 2 and 3 of the magazine. That was due to several factors, only one of which—my own heavy writing schedule this past summer and early fall—was predictable. The others involved illnesses to two key people involved in the work, and the recent decision by Baen Books to issue a paper anthology which will contain about one-third of the material that had originally been planned for this volume. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG3 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:09:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Mente_et_Malleo_Practical_Mineralogy_and_Minerals_ Laura Runkle One of the advantages that the people of Grantville have in the novels 1632 and 1633 is their technology. With their tools, the people of Grantville can turn out cannon, rifles, and steam engines. With their chemical knowledge, they can create antibiotics, aspirin, and DDT. With their electronics, they can create diplomatic and broadcast radios. Everything's a piece of cake, right? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Mente_et_Malleo_Practical_Mineralogy_and_Minerals_ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:00:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/SO_YOU_WANT_TO_DO_TELECOMMUNICATIONS_IN_1633 Rick Boatright David Freer's story in the Ring of Fire anthology "Lineman for the Country" described the beginnings of wired telecommunications in the 1632 universe and the founding of AT&L. Like any good story, much of the technology was mentioned, but not described in detail. This article seeks to fill in the gaps in that story, and provide a glimpse into the development of non-radio telecommunications in the USE. This article will not attempt to go into the details of the history of various types of telecom. Please see the references at the end for such history. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/SO_YOU_WANT_TO_DO_TELECOMMUNICATIONS_IN_1633 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:49:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG2 Eric Flint As you can perhaps deduce from the simple existence of a second issue of the Grantville Gazette, the first issue—which we did as an experiment, to see if there would be enough interest in such an online magazine—proved to be successful. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Preface_GG2 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:07:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Horse_Power Karen Bergstralh The people of Grantville have been plunged into a world where horsepower literally means horse power. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Horse_Power Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:02:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/They_ve_Got_Bread_Mold__So_Why_Can_t_They_Make_Pen Robert Gottlieb The above is one of the more common questions asked by readers following the 1632 series, especially those who are interested in the subject of disease and medicine. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to the question. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/They_ve_Got_Bread_Mold__So_Why_Can_t_They_Make_Pen Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:31:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_in_the_1632_Universe Rick Boatright The military and diplomatic radio situation in Europe at the end of the novel 1633 is a result of a unique combination of the authors' needs in the story line, the limitations imposed by the authors' choice of town to base Grantville on, and other historical accidents which left us with a wealth of some technologies and a dearth of others. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_in_the_1632_Universe Sun, 03 Jun 2007 13:16:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Aircraft_in_the_1632_Universe Gorg Huff The economics of airlines in the 1632 universe. What might they be? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Aircraft_in_the_1632_Universe Tue, 01 May 2007 13:08:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_Killed_the_Video_Star__Mass_Communication_De Jay Robison What's next? Only the Shadow knows . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Radio_Killed_the_Video_Star__Mass_Communication_De Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:17:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Tennis__The_Game_of_Kings Iver P. Cooper A popular sport for centuries . . . http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Tennis__The_Game_of_Kings Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:20:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Wooden_Wonders_of_Grantville Iver P. Cooper What all can you do with wood? Just about everything. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Wooden_Wonders_of_Grantville Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:00:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Music_of_the_Spheres_______er__Ring David Carrico You don't really call that music, do you? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/The_Music_of_the_Spheres_______er__Ring Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:27:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/So_You_Want_to_Build_the_Internet__IP_Communicaton Charles Prael None of us wants to live without the net, do we? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/So_You_Want_to_Build_the_Internet__IP_Communicaton Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:08:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Grantville_Police_Department John Zeek How many officers, and what do they do? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Grantville_Police_Department Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:06:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Flying_the_Virtual_Skies__A_Brief_History_and_1632 Sean Massey A simulated ride is better than no ride at all. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Flying_the_Virtual_Skies__A_Brief_History_and_1632 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:59:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/My_Name_is_Legion__Copying_the_Books_of_Grantville Iver P. Cooper Just what would it take to copy every book in Grantville? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/My_Name_is_Legion__Copying_the_Books_of_Grantville Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:42:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/VolumeXI Grantville Gazette Staff What's new in this issue? Read all about it. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/VolumeXI Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:40:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Adventures_in_Transportation Karen Bergstralh Who knew there were so many parts to a wagon? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Adventures_in_Transportation Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:25:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Steam__Taming_the_Demon Kevin H. Evans The steam revolution and what it will take to get it. http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/Steam__Taming_the_Demon Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:57:00 -0000 http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/hither Iver P. Cooper There and Back Again. How, how long, and how expensive? http://www.grantvillegazette.com/articles/hither