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Various Computer related projects which McClendon and his Team worked on. It was hard to just get a few 'KB' of memory in those early days for the computers.
See - THIS is something called a 'Blueprint', which is used to record compl ex and exacting details for some project. It is what you SHOULD have seen instead of those ridiculous chalkboards in Infinite BS ( and there WERE employed in the previous BS1/BS2 games ). Honestly, I don't think those game designers even KNOW what a chalkboard is any more, the way they were laughably used.
Little Sign on Andrew Ryan's office desk.
I'm sure I'll come up with something strange to caption this with ( An Invention for quickly making those huge banners - With an Art Deco type font ... )
"Things are Bigger and Better in Rapture !!!"
Ryan Industries Mono Cycle. Maneuverable. Just the thing for traversing the Suburbia tunnels in the newest section of Rapture.
This might have been found in multiverse fantasy magic BaSx Rapture, but WOULD NOT be in BS1/BS2 Rapture. Obviously the timelines were screwed up, which in a logical universe system causes that parallel universe never to have existed at all ( That's how you solve the "Grand Father Paradox" ).
Real Zeppelin Construction. Use of special extra light-weight metals, thin girders and lots of internal guy wires. No doubt the Super Scientist Fink just cooked up those new metal alloys in his kitchen one afternoon ... (( Yeah that makes sense to explain it, doesn't it ?? NO. The writers made heavy use of 'Cuz' ... )) It really damages the story when clueless developers attempt to hopelessly explain their Fantasy world - insisting it is based on Reality/History.
Remember in the game they talk about hydrogen going boom boom - Which means they had attempted to make them The Old Fashioned Way before getting Floatyshit(tm) ones to work properly.
Note how this gun is well supported. A REAL Gatling Gun Gatling Gun - https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gatling-gun weighs something like 200 pounds ( You are not going to balance it in only one hand and then turn a crank with the other as the gamemakers would propose ). The Motorized Patriots, being overbalanced by that mass of metal, just looked stupid. The Player supposedly carrying it was further cretinous stupidity/ignorance.
If McClendon had been in Columbia then you might have seen an 'AutomaticGent' See Concept Ideas#Autogent - Automatic Gentlemen idea for Infinite BS back before that game was totally ^#$$%^#-up by Levine., which would render the bothersome Lower Classes/Serfs largely redundant ( resulting in their being disposed of, and allowing Columbia to peacefully sail off into its future. )
Jack did look kinda Dumb when he had only found and put on the helmet section of his Big Daddy disguise.
Ryan's Surface Organization started all kinds of strange rumors to try to camouflage Rapture's existence.
Another at-least-plausible mechanism, versus the magic Skylines of Columbia. ( This vehicle's concept art looks based on the REAL "Boynton Bicycle Railway" "Boynton Bicycle Railway" - http://robertkopolovicz.com ). Seriously, if the gamemakers had to have a fricken chainsaw melee weapon (Skyhook), THEN JUST HAVE A FRICKEN CHAINSAW ...
Seeing all the concept art, it is quite apparent that the Columbia game setting very well COULD have been done MUCH MUCH better than what the Players got.
This whole facade looks to be something made for back when they gave tours of "The Thinker" ( the sign, the big blue spark stuff, etc ... ). Real computers are pretty dull and boring to look at ( even with panels of Blinky Lights and spinning Tape Drives ).
Looks like it should shout "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.!!!"
Explaining the Canon-breaking Infinit-ized Rapture ( BaSx ), it was fully plausible that 'Elizabeth' was one of Cohens little circle that he dosed with his famous "ADAM Cocktails", resulting in insanity ( Cohen intentionally doing it as 'Performance Art' ), and the resulting delusions that the game represents.
This here might also be the latest Rapture fad of injecting Bioluminescent dyes into peoples eyes to make them all weirdly glowey. "Just hold still while I stick this long needle into your eyeball ... Oh don't be such a baby !!!"
Some developments in Rapture were simply "Because We Could" ( especially if certain rich people tried to outdo each other by possessing such things and thus funding their being made ). 
[Sander Cohen]] probably would have his custom-made with a bit more aesthetically pleasing form.
Construction using prefabricated building sections ( made near the ocean surface and then floated into position ). This method would have been much easier (and cheaper) than any manual construction down at 600 feet depth, which required clumsy Hard Suits for divers and complications of alot more Remote Control construction work.
Cleaned up this poster. Complex technology, but more plausible if the unit transmitted its multi-sensor data BACK to some central processing site ( Using computers and such to diagnose the data patterns, reference databases, and then respond with the analysis and clues about the subject being 'researched' ). May have started as a Medical Scanner Tool, but then found uses by Ryan Security in evaluating the growing Splicer problem in Rapture.
Compact TV in Rapture. Basic Wood ( expensive in Rapture ?? ) Improvements in electronics made for new consumer goods. (( THIS PIX Looks like someone's micro-ATX computer 'mod'. ))
Seems to be the inspiration for the Minervas Den decorative theme
Early Computer (40's) which has multitudes of vacuum tubes. "The Thinker" could NOT EVER be made from technology THIS primitive. That required some great technological jump like Bio-Electronics ( an offshoot of the ADAM technologies ).
An early radio (manufactured 1926). Dig those bare wires with no insulation on them.
I think it was plausible that in most of the parallel universes where Fink stole technology from 'The Future', and where he tried to make it work, he managed to kill himself quite quickly. In that 1893-1912 period, many people still thought that 'electricity' would leak from the wall sockets, OR that you had to build power lines in straight lines or the 'electricity' would JUMP off the wires at curves. Maybe if we had seen a whole lot of famous geniuses stolen from history, chained down in Columbia's dark dungeon depths, they MIGHT have had a tiny chance of doing some of the things the game writers present so easily done.
Kodak Brownie Camera ( you'd get it for $1, with 'free' film, but have to pay for the film processing. ) Another opportunity lost - Booker (The Player) taking pictures for 'The Authorities' ( US Government or whatever ) as a side 'Achievement' in the game.
Someone's Art Deco Drink Cabinet --- Nice work ( probably was common in Prohibition Era America in upscale homes ).
Sound Recording Cylinders (made of wax). This would have been more proper for the Vox-0-Phone Audio_Diary objects in Infinite BS ( a more compact shaped device instead of that monstrosity playing the '78' Record ).
Little Johnny's Lunch Pail with Genetic Lock ? Boobytrapped to prevent someone pilfering the goodies.
Looks a bit like Ryan knew more than just that something was up ... Ryan would have every opportunity to monitor the communications Atlas made to Jack. With all the Accu-Vox evidence laying about, he also easily could have had the details of Fontaine's plan being under way.
SO WE CAN HAVE A BETTER PLOT TWIST : 
So plenty of time to grab some Animatronics from Ryan Amusements to fool ADAM-addled Jack ( and Fontaine with his limited access to the event ) into thinking they had killed Ryan. After that, Fontaine gives himself a way, and Ryan's army of Splicers/Flybots would be heading to Point Prometheus to 'fix' Fontaine/Atlas if Jack did not succeed.
Jack is 'out cold' when Ryan Security finishes Atlas/Fontaine off. Hard for the self-made master-parasite to 'regenerate' when he is chopped into fishfood, burnt to ashes and flushed into the ocean. ( Ryan might like his Skull for a 'Putting Cup' ...)
Jack ( who really is just 4 years old ) would get the best care in being rehabilitated. You wouldn't find this out til the very end ... Now THAT would have been an Epic Plot Twist ( And not so anti-climactic - the way the last 3rd the BS1 game turned out ).
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MIGHT This be some attempt to imply some kind of Obsession of Ryan's by the Gamemakers ??? Paranoid ? Obsessive ??? Well it is not really paranoia when its actually True and the evidence started massing about what was happening. Atlas is a sociopathic murderer. It would be remiss for Ryan to NOT hunt him down and eliminate him. By this point Sullivan is also supposed to be gone, and Ryan had to continue the Investigation himself.
The Location of Rapture. Seafloor Depth represented there looks to be 1000-1500 meters ( ~ 3000 - 4500 feet ). So Rapture, so as to not be squashed under such depths, would have to be built alot less deep than that ( like 600 feet, which WAS technically feasible in its post-WW2 era ). Thus having Rapture sit ON an undersea mountain/volcano, that rises quite a bit from the seafloor and closer to the surface, would be a logical preposition.
Fink's initial line of Vigors weren't a success. Suchong may have stolen some like these and sold them to Sander Cohen for his partying.
Train Schedules - Note "Fontaine Court" - Probably along the line back in the opposite direction that we travel in BS2 ( It is not strange that the map is really only a subset of the big Rapture-wide system, and that they only showed relevant parts to the sequel game ).
Ahead of its time. Still a bit of a 'brick'.
Fink's Espresso Machine - Best coffee in Columbia. Too bad that after US government was hunting 'The Pirate City', the coffee beans ran out and they were forced to use rat turds.
Smugglers Hideout Tunnels years later ?? ( Also there likely were more than one such 'hideouts' )
: *OR* is this the lower 'trog-serf' level in Columbia, with the 'evil' oozing down from above ??
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