After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 360

Garan looked at her still-long list and rubbed her soft cheek. "Tell me more," he said and she happily continued with her chatter.

"I also want to do printing for mass production of books now that we have paper."

With the printing press, the education system would flourish, and with it countless other unquantifiable things.

"We also need to fast track the handling of resin—something that could’ve been available ages ago, if there weren’t so many wars…"

For a start, she wanted to develop resin products such as rubber which could be made into tires, gaskets, seals, and other components. Rubber had been one of the essential material developments during the industrial revolution due to its importance in machinery.

Other products like wax, waterproofing, footwear, improved bowstrings, and adhesives could also stem from this.

She also wanted some improvement of ink, as the current one was really low quality with so many blots it was killing the over-compulsive her every time she wrote. _{frёeωebɳovel.com}

There was also too much wastage as it was now, making ink still very expensive to make and more expensive to buy, should they be made commercially available in its current state.

"There are also calculation devices other than the abacus, for everyone’s convenience."

There were already plenty of abacus being sold in the wood-workers shop.

It was fine now, but the territory population would increase. The territory lands would get bigger and bigger. The ancient methods would soon be obsolete.

One of the calculating tools that could be done without electricity was the Analytical Machine, the precursor of modern computers that needed electricity. This was entirely a mechanical device and would theoretically (if done correctly) be able to do automated calculations and general-purpose computing.

And when they figure out how to incorporate electricity, they would need this to create the electric prototypes of computers as well.

This was really getting ahead of herself, but there was not much to lose.

"When the basics are done, I also want to develop astronomy and navigation including accurate time keeping…"

"I also want to develop weather prediction and meteorology. I want to know the changes of weather in advance—I don’t want to depend on luck and wait in stress."

She didn’t believe that the weather was completely unpredictable as the aborigines believed.

According to the Aborigines, there were a few elders in certain cities who could determine an approximate timeline of the extreme weather changes, but it was up to their mood and how much a territory was willing to pay before they even gave a hint.

How could Althea allow herself to be dependent on other people—possibly quacks?

For a start, they needed to create non-electric tools to help the future meteorology department. For instance, there was the barometer, hopefully, a sensitive one, so they could immediately get alerted if storms arrived.

They had already done wind vanes and anemometers a long time ago, but there were too many tools needed to be able to predict weather with some accuracy.

For example, they would need thermometers, hygrometers, rain gauges, sunshine recorders, ceilometers, et cetera.

The sad part was that a lot of these needed glass… so that would definitely take a while.

Further, when electricity became available, there were dozens of other tools to increase accuracy as well.