TL5 (The Industrial Revolution)

TL5 (The Industrial Revolution) and TL6 (The Mechanized Age) both belong to the Age of Steam. While the formal Age of Discovery was over there was still a lot of TL4 (The Age of Sail) around in the early part of this period.
==General Developments==
Note: these are a combination of the material in the Basic Set and GURPS High-Tech
*Signature technologies: Mechanical calculators; telegraph
*Transportation: Steam locomotives; steamboats; early submersibles; balloons and early airships; Bicycle; macadam road; screw propeller
*Weapons and Armor: Early repeating small arms; rifled cannon; ironclads
**Arms and Armor: Barbed wire, breech-loading artillery, breech-loading rifle, ironclad warship, mechanical machine gun, nitroglycerine, revolver, rocket.
*Power: Steam engines; direct currentVoltaic pile and Homopolar generatorThe basic set lists direct current and alternating current as separate TLs while GURPS High-Tech doesn't; coal; batteries
*Biotechnology/Medicine: Anesthetic; antiseptic; canned foods;, evaporated milk; hypodermic syringe; pasteurization; vaccination; Germ theory of disease;
===Other Developments===
*Agriculture: Four-course crop rotation, seed drill.
*Information Technology: Newspaper advertising, photography, public library, scientific journals, telegraph.
*Machinery: Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, powered loom, reaping machine.
*Material Science: Crucible steel, friction match, rubber.
==Magical Settings at this TL==
*Classic: Old West: Generally a very magic poor High Fantasy setting. What magic does exist is in the possession of Native Americans and alchemists.
*Classic: Steampunk: This where the line between the supernatural and science starts blurring. Magic as a force is dismissed out of hand but supernatural forces are explained via science. For example, Henry Moore's 17th century concept that ghosts are in reality 4 physical dimensional beings is promoted by Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllne very late in this TL"If a fourth-dimension creature existed it could, in our three-dimensional universe, appear and dematerialize at will, change shape remarkably, pluck us out of locked rooms, and make us appear from nowhere." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos pg 219
This list is taken from the GURPS Repository.
* Batteries (Basic Set, p. 288; GURPS High-Tech, p. 13)
* Business Cards (GURPS High-Tech, p. 18)
* Copying Press (GURPS High-Tech, p. 18)
* Ethanol (Fuel) (GURPS High-Tech, p. 15-16)
* Handcuffs (Basic Set, p. 289)
* Rotary Press(GURPS High-Tech, p. 17)
* Slide Rule (GURPS High-Tech, p. 18)
* Steam Engine, Semi-Portable (GURPS High-Tech, p. 14)
* Steam-Powered Rotary Press (GURPS High-Tech, p. 17)
* Steel Cable (Basic Set, p. 288)
* Suitcase (Basic Set, p. 288) see also Containers and Storage
* Suitcase Lab (Basic Set, p. 289)
* Talking Board (GURPS Horror, p.47)
* Thermos Bottle (Basic Set, p. 288)
==Related Material==
*TL5 Equipment
*TL5 Weapons
*Tech Level
*GURPS Bio-Tech
*GURPS Steamtech
*GURPS Steampunk 1: Settings and Style
*GURPS Steampunk 2: Steam and Shellfire
*GURPS Steampunk 3: Soldiers and Scientists
==Notes==
==References==
*GURPS High-Tech
*GURPS Magic Items 3 pg 10
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