Cross-Time Engineer

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• michaelbuckbee · Oct 15, 2013 · Recommends

  There's a really interesting book series called "The Cross Time Engineer". It puts a modern day engineer back into the middle ages and follows his path to rebooting an industrial society from just the knowledge in his skull. While it's surely not wholly accurate, everything…

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• kabdib · Dec 15, 2021 · Recommends

  A light, enjoyable read along these lines is Leo Frankowski's "high tech knight" series, starting with The Cross-time Engineer. The main character -- a real engineer -- gets transported back to medieval Poland, and he knows that he's got ten years either to bug out, or help Poland defend itself from the coming Mongol invasion.…

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• edkennedy · Jun 12, 2011 · Recommends

  An interesting look into that idea is "The Cross Time Engineer" by Leo Frankowski. The main character is an engineer, so he has extensive knowledge, but it's interesting in how that knowledge is applied to medieval times. It ended up being a series of many books.

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• michaelbuckbee · Oct 29, 2016 · Recommends

  …Technology" which I thought of as well while reading the article. It would be really neat if he did an episode on making a more complicated wheel and axle structure. Also, I would highly recommend "The Cross Time Engineer" series as it's this same scenario but works through how he's able to apply his modern knowledge as leverage to work up from a boatman earning pennies to running the country. 1 - https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad...

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• michaelbuckbee · Sep 21, 2015 · Recommends

  It's not quite what you're asking for but there's a really interesting series of books called the "Cross-Time Engineer" [1] which is a thinly veiled thought experiment of how to reboot civilization from a medieval time period with modern knowledge. I recommend the series as it's absolutely fantastic from an engineering…

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• bootload · Jan 4, 2009 · Mentions

  …one. I remember this reading Micheal Crichton book called Timeline ~ http://www.crichton-official.com/books-timeline.html which in itself is based on an idea by Leo A. Frankowski who wrote a book called Cross-Time Engineer ~ http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-...

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• bombcar · Aug 26, 2022 · Critical

  …the concepts of "bad water") though many of those were somewhat in play even in ancient times (often as religious practices). There have been some books that explored the idea - I recall a series "The Cross-time Engineer" which isn't actually that great, but does have some obvious engineering knowledge. One thing I do think it gets right is that if you're sending someone back in time to change the past, you do NOT send…

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