Forum:Timeline

I assume there is another thread for discussing the story's timeline, but I couldn't find it. I did find a potential problem with the Great Pumpkin Conjecture timeline; specifically the Bugatti brand coffee engine. Ettore Bugatti was born in 1881 and was not internationally recognized for his engineering prowess until 1898, when he designed the Type 1. He didn't establish his own company until 1910.

Even allowing for some skewing of the timeline, I would guess that there was some kind of relativistic dilation between Lucrezia's disappearance while pregnant and the reappearance of Agatha from the Geisterdamen dimension that could allow the story to take place some time between 1898 and 1904.