| 1880 |
| This Year In Other Timelines |
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World of Darkness: 1880 |
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Trinity Universe: 1880 |
Events[]
- Mr. Eric Baring-Gould goes "missing," likely going underground following his Embrace.[1]
- The 46th Council of the Council of Nine meets in Horizon.[2]
- By this year, Analytical Reckoners all over the United States of America are experimenting with the telephone. The idea – that of transmitting voice as electrical signals – has them excited about creating miniaturized difference engines which run on electricity.[3]
- The 37th meeting of the Technocracy's Invisible College, advancing the Time Table.[4][5]
- The US Census is taken, and requires seven and a half years to tally.[6]
July[]
- July 20: James "Gearhead" Peritone sends a letter to the Convention Council regarding the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, and the paradigm shift it represents. The Analytical Reckoners have the Electrodyne Engineers working on a method of using electrical pulses to transmit information.[7]
- Shortly following this, the Analytical Reckoners petition the Invisible College to rename themselves the Virtual Adepts in honor of the concept of virtual space.[8][9]
References[]
- ↑ VTM: WTOJ
- ↑ MTAs: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition, p. 288
- ↑ MTAs: Digital Web 2.0, p. 16
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 81
- ↑ MTAs: Guide to the Technocracy, p. 86
- ↑ MTAs: Convention Book: Iteration X, p. 22
- ↑ MTAs: Virtual Adepts Tradition Book, p. 15
- ↑ MTAs: Mage Storytellers Companion, p. 13
- ↑ MTAs: Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts, p. 16
| 1879 | 19th century 1880s |
1881 |