Originally Posted by
Voidmonster
There's nothing quite like owning and using a useful tool older than telegraphs or iron steamer ships.
When it was new, people still used the long s in print. It would be almost a half century before anesthesia was even occasionally used with surgery. There was no Bessemer process for making steel. Michael Faraday was just the son of a blacksmith and a bookstore clerk, though he was just starting to strike up a friendship with Humphrey Davy. Frankenstein had not yet been written.
In short, it comes from another world entirely.
And you can use it.