Re: Off-Topic Discussion
BBC had a show IIRC called Victorian Farm
In the Victorian days the rurual where using horse and blacksmithing to run farms.
So something like the post-to-post tractors where a big difference. If you think of a ferry boat pulling along a rope that goes to posts on each bank of the river you have an idea. The next series would be tractors more easily steered.
>A< tractor would be a big deal for a village. It might even see people trying to rent or crop share for the fella with the tractor to do work on their fields.
The transition also saw the tractor owners starting to buy up the nearby fields and that means those farm families had to leave. PCs on the roads might met some of those displaced people because of the tractor marvel. Then arrive at the farm land and see it at work.
An accurate pocket watch, say from a naval officer, might be a valued oddity. It being the only clock in the community. Seriously. No clock towers, no cell phones, no watches. Up at sunset and work till dark. The idea of counting minutes and seconds would be curious. Perhaps he folks with the watch ring the bells at 5 pm to call folks home for dinner or something. Or the medieval built church was donated the naval officer's pocket watch and use it to tell when the bell ringing hauls on the ropes
Two ideas to work with anyway