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Deviations from our own timeline: '''1880:''' Pierre and Jacques Curie demonstrate the direct piezoelectric effect. '''1884:''' Under the prompting of Gabriel Lippmann, the Curie brothers demonstrate the converse piezoelectric effect. '''1890:''' '''1895:''' Pierre Curie marries Marie Skłodowska. '''1897:''' Irene Curie is born to Pierre and Marie Curie. '''1900:''' '''1904:''' Eve Curie is born to Pierre and Marie Curie. '''1910:''' '''1914:''' World War I begins. '''1917:''' Irene Curie is killed in action during an experiment with weaponized x-rays. Eve Curie is distraught and decides to give up her dreams of becoming a journalist and biographist to follow in her father's footsteps. '''1918:''' World War I ends. '''1920:''' '''1925:''' Eve Curie graduates from the Collège Sévigné in Paris with two bachelor's degrees: Science and Philosophy. '''1929:''' The Great Depression begins. Eve Curie, continuing her father's experiments with piezoelectricity, attempts to demonstrate piezoelectric effect with gallium. Due to a laboratory accident, the experiment is tainted with mercury. She is astonished to discover that gallium immersed in mercury creates more electricity than it consumes using this method. However, the fuel is far from perfect, and the crystals do degrade over time. She experiments with this further and develops a device she calls a curator. '''1930:''' Eve Curie shows the curator to John D. Rockefeller, who sees that it means the end of the oil market and who immediately sells his entire oil empire to Henry Ford for a fraction of its worth. Rockefeller starts a new company with Eve Curie which is entirely dedicated to perfecting this new fuel source. '''1931:''' The first evium, an alloy of mercury and gallium, is synthesized. Rockefeller and Ford, now close friends, use one of Ford's factories to produce a working prototype car that never needs to refuel. '''1932:''' Henry Ford dissolves his oil empire, selling its various parts to competitors. The Model E goes into mass production. It runs off of a curator and is affordable for many Americans. '''1934:''' The curator is licensed to several other manufacturers, including Rolls-Royce, Mercedez-Benz, and Mitsubishi. '''1935:''' Fiat reverse-engineers the curator device and begins manufacturing their own variant. Mussolini acquires the technology from Fiat and uses it to create a new Italian army. '''1937:''' Aggressive imperialism, driven by desire to find and make use of the ingredients necessary for evium, begins, prompted by the expansionist steps taken by Italy, Britain, France, and the United States. '''1939:''' '''1940:''' '''1944:''' '''1950:''' '''1960:''' '''1970:''' '''1980:''' '''1990:''' '''2000:''' Present day.
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