cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/719304
Autistic people, did your special interest exist prior to the year 1800? If not, what would be the closest thing to it?
By exist, I mean something you’d be able to study. For example, dinosaurs existed well before 1800 but that doesn’t mean there was a good way for the layman to learn about them.
i guess it’d be a book series about an interdimensional… whatever the predecessor of a train is, because steam locomotives would’ve been just 5 years out. idk, did sci-fi writers talk about alternate dimensions yet?
Sometimes I think about that flying train Doc Brown had at the end of Back to the Future III, I really wanted to see some time traveling train shenanigans.