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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
It seems like the types of things included in this are:
-Technically workable stuff that was actually built or at least proposed up to TL4, but never made it big.
-Stuff that represents myths, both historical and modern. Specifically, myths about supposedly non-magical things. Like alchemy, ethnic cool weapons, stirrups, plate armor weighing hundreds of pounds, impenetrable cloth...
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Exactly right. It's very specifically a catalog of historical imaginings. Up to a point, history's short on extrapolation and working out the consequences, so there's essentially none of that.