Question Are teleportation gadgets possible in Whateley?

Like everything else, its a matter of power. A teleport gun? Not likely. A teleportation grid running from city to city? Possible but enormously expensive. With the large scale power supply issue cracked in G2 timeframes, it becomes more viable... but personal gear is still limited significantly.

Magic is, btw, not any more advanced with regards to teleportation/gating... however, it does have the advantage of more accessible power supplies. IF you have access to that level of power at all, that is.

Well, here's why I made the distinction between personal and fixed / facility placement. There is a gateway between Whateley and the Utah Salt Flats, for example. That's NOT a devise, it's a 100% viable point to point spacial transportation system. That particular variant requires a facility at both ends (it is not variable, travel only works between those two points given the hardware/software designed for it) and both ends require enormous power drains for stable operations. As a result, it is rarely used as a shortcut to the West Coast even under certain emergency conditions.

However, there are other Gadgeteer based designs that are more advanced than that one... where initiation and destination points are variable and those calculations are handled by software instead of hardware, and so on. Obviously the further into the future the Gadgeteer has pulled the teleportation tech from; the harder it will be to reproduce because of manufacturing issues and the more likely that sub components (like power supplies) will be unavailable without other Gadgeteer work on those areas.

In THAT sense, the question you might be asking is less about whether Gadgeteers have viable teleportation than whether have seeded teleportation into the technology base of the baseline Engineering system.