Working on the Plan Part 1

The following month became one of the busiest periods in Ernest's life since the construction of the first steam engine.

The difference was that steam engines had at least possessed historical precedent in this world. Primitive versions existed in books and experiments even if nobody had successfully transformed them into practical industrial machines.

Electricity was different.

Electricity belonged almost entirely to the realm of curiosities and parlor tricks.

Amber attracting bits of cloth.

Lightning striking trees during storms.

Static sparks jumping between fingers during winter.

That was the extent of humanity's relationship with electricity in this world.

Ernest intended to change that.