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There is a science fiction genre called steam-punk. You will recognize it by the design of the technology – which looks like Gilvern, like a crazy combination of high technology and design that all kinds of technological devices had in the steamy era of the technological boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At that time, Central Europe was dominated by a now-forgotten superpower, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, of which we were also a part. For it, technological progress stopped forever, because it fell apart after World War I. But a time machine that could take us to that time would bring us to the land of many technological breakthroughs. Devices and technologies of a completely different time, some of which were the seeds of today's most modern technologies, and some of which, after a few decades, turned out to be technological dead ends and disappeared from sight forever. What and how much did our spaces contribute to the technological development of the 19th and early 20th centuries? We will follow in the footsteps of Austro-steampunk, from torpedoes, to airships, tanks, hovercrafts and helicopters, all in Austria-Hungary, and to a large extent in Croatia.