CH787 Prototype Testing
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When Alex reflected on the great technological advancements of his previous life, he narrowed the primary drivers of those developments down to three inventions: the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the electric motor.
The steam engine came first, ushering mankind into the First Industrial Revolution. Over a century later, the internal combustion engine joined it, helping drive the Second Industrial Revolution.
By the modern era of Alex's previous life—before his transmigration into his current one—human civilisation was powered largely by the coexistence of internal combustion engines and electric motors, with steam engines relegated to more specialised and niche roles.
It was widely theorised that the future of his former world would eventually move away from internal combustion engines and instead be driven by electric motors, or perhaps by whatever revolutionary technology succeeded them.
