On This Day in Steampunk History - March 6

German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. patents Aspirin - A.K.A.acetylsalicylic acid, a derivitative of willow bark. Both the checmical work, and the design of the steam devices used to strip the bark will leaving the willow trees alive, were developed by Jewish chists & engineers, while the credit for them were given to supervisors that were of more acceptable 'races' to the German company's shareholders.

There is some evidence that  the pattern used by the harvester mechs was based on the Qabbalistic theories of Rabbi Levi, as taught to John Dee and Aleister Crowley. Some arguments have been made that these patterns more closely resemble the machine language designs of Lady Ada Lovelace, though the harvesters bear little resemblace to Charles Babbage's calculating machines.