Techs between 1836-1866

[B-29 Bomber]

I'm creating a scenario for Civ 3 and I'm restructuring the Tech tree. The eras are:

1836-1846

1847-1856

1857-1866

It would be awesome if you guys organized it in a sort of tree, but it isn't necessary and if it's too much to ask don't bother. If you want more info on the scenario just ask. I'll give you a hint: There's an outside force influencing what's realistically could happen and what can't happen. I'll give another hint: Think Guns of the South.

I know this isn't the right place to ask this but:
How go I prevent Tech Trading?

 

[CoffeeShopFrank]

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/Nineteenth_2.htm
Here are some technologies developed during the time periods you mentioned. I don't know much about modding Civ 3, so I can't help you.

Can you tell us more about the scenario you want to make? It sounds interesting.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

To prevent tech trading you need to check the 'can't be traded' box for each tech. As for the techs, I don't have a clue.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Advances in rail and rifle technologies are what immediately pop into my head, but that's because you end essentially after the Civil War. But, yeah, think transportation, weaponry (always important in a Civ game).

In the early part of that period, the telegraph is a big one. There's also advances in factory. Going with US history for the moment, Lowell was founded as a textile factory in the 1820s. I think it started as water powered. Certainly, the shift to coal factories is a major advance, but I'm not sure when that happened. The Bessemer process for making Steel happened around 1850 or so.

That's off the top of my head. I hope it gets you started.

 

[Cutlass]

Sewing machines and machine tools. The ability to machine metal parts with some precision made many of the other techs possible. Improvements in metallurgy made better tools.

 

[sydhe]

Telegraphy, late 1830s.

 

[Dachs]

The percussion cap, which made firearms into (more or less) all-weather devices, was invented around 1830. Some countries - even ones at the relative forefront of military innovation,, like the United Kingdom - didn't start using it until the 1840s.

Variants of the Minié ball, a form of ammunition that effectively increased bullet velocity (its introduction spawned a period in warfare that was bloodier - proportionally - than any other in history), were developed between the 1820s and the 1840s, with the final variant coming into service around 1848.

Breech-loading firearms came into wide service in Western armies in the 1860s, although one version - the Dreyse needle gun - was introduced in Prussia in 1842 (it was a classified secret weapon until it was used by Prussian troops to suppress some of the revolutions in Germany in 1848). The chassepot, a French breech-loader, was put into service in 1866.

Various kinds of breech-loading rifled artillery were developed by most European powers, with slightly different variants coming out of Armstrong in the UK and Krupp in Prussia (Hotchkiss and Bofors of France and Sweden came up with their own versions, but that's a bit after the time frame). Krupp steel breech-loading artillery formed the backbone of the Prussian army in the war of 1870.

You may wish to denote the increasing ability of military staffs to handle decision-making and information. The Prussian Great General Staff is the most famous of these, of course, but America, Russia, and France all saw useful staffing developments (the French...thing is a long story).

Although the Paixhans gun and other uses of shell ammunition for artillery predate your period, shells were constantly being refined over the course of the period, especially in terms of fuse quality. Didn't quite get to the Age of High Explosives yet, of course.

 

[Lone Cat]

^ The 'percussion lock' was initially invented by Rev. Forsythe in Scotland. during the late 17xx or during Napoleonic wars. but it was not popular because (i think) you still have to 'prime' the weapon EXACTLY in the same way as flintlocks. but you pour Mercury(II)Fulminate into 'perfume bottle' (which it IS a flash paan) instead. not so convinient...

but i'm not sure where was the first percussion 'caps' appeared? Britain or USA?