Columbia Timeline

* See also Infinite_Stupidity
* See also Technology_In_Columbias_Era
* See also Historic_Tech_Timeline
* See also Infinite_Timeline_Problems
 consolidate with Infinite_Timeline_Problems ??
--- --- --- --- ---
Historic Impact : Panic of 1893
What little US Government Money (FEDERAL TAX MONEY) supposedly used to build ( and develop the all new technology ) Columbia was already allocated for other things in a very small ( compared to now ) budget for the legislators own pet projects and the standards expenses like the Army/Navy etc ...
The Depression that followed was significant and signes of it coming were already seen the year before ( Why the Real Chicago 1893 Exposition was largeley paid for with LOCAL PRIVATE money ( proposed as a boost to the local economy in the bad economic times seen to be coming ).
:https://www.britannica.com/topic/Panic-of-1873
--- --- ---
Infinite BS, Story Timeframe Is Rather Tight :
Booker Born April 1874 ?   Wounded Knee  Dec 1890  (When Booker is 16 ?)
Still working for the Pinkertons ? ( Contract issued ? Long Previously Fired ? )  Jan 1892  ( Booker was not yet 18 )  Most likely employed just as a Strikebreaking 'thug' hireling ( Not much detective work got done with that line of work ).
Columbia launched 1893, its building probably started well before that  ( exposition opened May ended Oct )  Booker is 20 yr old ??   And somehow despite his youth (in thinking, if not in appearance because of this 'aging' - Whenever THAT is supposed to have happened -- was already dealing with Luteces ...) talked his way into important circles and finances and preaching/prophesying in the same short time ? ( Biggest Bad Fantasy in the Whole Story ... )
So besides the Lutece and this absurdly rapid building of Columbia, there was a Economic Depression on in 1893, so NO there wasn't any "money from Congress" ( from taxpayer's money ... and stolen/redirected from all the other politicos' private pet projects ... ). SO does it require just 'Go through a Tear and Steal Gold from another dimension's Fort Knox' ??
There is WAY too much contrivance in this 'story' when its all made to fit dates they selected for certain elements without considering how absurdly close together they are ( or what they conflict with ) -- Mismatched for anything that would be plausible in the real world.
(( Row a boat to the Lighthouse ... Why not 'row' it to the Moon where the Turtle Princess is planning to destroy the Earth because the Luteces stole her magic crystal thimble ???   Frightening to think that THAT very well could have been the storyline - The way they seem to write for this game. ( Perhaps, THAT would have been a more plausible story ? ... ) ))
--- --- ---
Great Hurricane of 1893
Which Hit New York City
I'm sure the writers of Infinite BS could have made something of this if they had thought of it.
--- --- ---
Dates - Note in the following how short a times are allowed for many Events - The gamewriters sloppily shoving together certain events to achieve their desired timeline that fit the story details ( instead of the other way around ).
Infinite BS should have taken only 3 months to make and release IF things worked/progressed the way these writers 'figured' TIME for their story. (( Technologically, Levine would also have accomplished creating the game merely with a marginally-smart Wombat, a Toothbrush and a Turd to match Comstock/Fink's unworldly accomplishments. ))
:Age 16 and Booker IN the US Army
:1890 Dec Wounded Knee
:Three Amazing Years of Comstock ( less if "Columbia" launched time of 1893 Exposition Start )
:1893 Columbia Completed 
:1905 Comstock takes over Columbia
:1912 Elizabeth now old enuf to have a potential 'love interest' with Booker ( meaning weirdness of the 'baby buying' was way back around 1893 )
-
Far more incredible even than the BioShock 1958 Sept_15 to Dec_31 interval where Ryan earns all the story blame for ADAM wrecking Rapture.
--- --- ---
--- --- --- --- ---
.
.