Reddit reviews The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1)

I'd suggest The Cross-Time Engineer
as it is exactly the situation OP envisioned.

Ok.... here's EXACTLY what you want.

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

Even Better: The Cross Time Engineer. It's like Twain's book, but with sex, more SciFi and sequels.

Everyone in this thread should read this book/series, about a 20th century Polish engineer time warped back ~700 years.

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

The Cross-Time Engineer

Cross Time Engineer deals with it by moving the action to Poland, and making the claim that the Polish language hasn't changed much since the Middle Ages.

This sounds cool, and if it sounds cool to you I can't recommend strongly enough the Conrad Stargard books from Leo Frankowski http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317995127&sr=1-7
An accidental time traveller suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself in thirteenth-century Poland, and knowing that the Mongols are about to invade he sets to bringing about the industrial revolution.

There's actually a series of books that follow this topic rather nicely. It is about an engineer who unexpectedly warps back to medieval Poland. He promptly goes to work using his knowledge to level up society.

The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1) on Amazon.

I don't recall in which book it takes place, but a nice plot point is his realization of the significance of the date: the Mongol invasion is not very far away, so he better get cracking on preparing where he is to defend against the onslaught.

You might enjoy the Time Crossed Engineer by Leo Frankowski: what happens when a professional engineer is accidentally back in time to 1231 AD in Medieval Poland.. just ten years before the Mongols are scheduled to invade.

It's a time travel story written by an engineer who just liked to play with the idea of what a modern day (well, 1980s engineer) engineer could do if stranded. But he starts from scratch and builds up. I liked it twenty years ago. Not sure if it still holds up.

https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

The Crosstime Engineer.

A Polish engineer accidently gets back in time to 1230 AD, so he gets the Industrial Revolution started so that Poland can fight off the Mongols when they show up in 1240.

The last book has knights shooting stream powered machine guns, special forces soldiers in plate armor, and small airplanes dropping gunpowder bombs on the Mongol Horde. Fun stuff.

Leo Frankowski's Cross-Time Engineer series is a fascinating look at exactly this. One of my favourites.

http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

The Cross-Time Engineer is similar as well.

On the Western side of things I know of The Cross-time Engineer by Leo Frankowski as well as Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Stirling.

Both are the start of their respective series with the Cross-Time engineer starting a 5-novel series and Island starting a trilogy.

>Whatever language becomes the world's first will favor the native speakers for decades to come.

I remember reading a book (The Cross-Time Engineer), which was written by a Pole and was about a Polish engineer. In it, the engineer points out that Polish children need to spend a significant amount more effort than US children do, because they need to learn English to function well in the engineering world.

I'd never really considered that before, and it certainly was an interesting thought.

Anyone interested in thinking about this subject in more depth would likely be entertained by the cross-time engineer series of novels by Leo Frankowski. It's about a nice Polish kid who gets thrown back in time to ten years before the Mongols arrive to decimate Poland. So he sets about turning Poland into the technological superpower of the thirteenth century.

http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

I really enjoyed The Cross Time Engineer. It's about being dropped into the medieval era, but still works. (Later books get further "out there", but I still enjoyed them.)

Relevant:
http://www.amazon.com/Cross-Time-Engineer-Adventures-Conrad-Stargard/dp/0345327624

Cross Time Engineer is literally this exact story. Current (2006) engineer is transported back to medieval poland. Has to re-create modern technology since he knows poland is going to be decimated by the mongols in 10 year. He creates like an 1800's level technology in 1241, 4 book series and outside the 'childish' side stories (written like a sex fantasy in some places) the science is awesome.. how Conrad has to create base level technologies, and use his current knowledge somehow, and avoid being thought of as a sorcerer/witch for all his knowledge . Super fun read, would suggest reading until the flying warlord, everything after that devolves into what seems like it was fan-fiction

Cross-Time Engineer, Book 1

I'd like to recommend The Cross-Time Engineer. Rough synopsis: a mechanical engineer falls into a time machine accidentally and winds up in the Middle Ages and tries to do what he can with what is just rattling around inside his head.

(There are also subsequent books in the series, but like Herbert's Dune series and so many other series, they really aren't nearly as good as the first one.)

How about infinite alternate possibilities?

Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen

Also you might enjoy The Cross-Time Engineer