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'''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 curio. | '''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 curio. | ||
| - | '''1930:''' Eve Curie shows the curio 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, Standard | + | '''1930:''' Eve Curie shows the curio 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, Standard Curios, 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 runs off of a curio. | '''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 runs off of a curio. | ||
