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[DJ Bonebraker]

If some of you are wondering what one of the key influences on me becoming a steampunk are, here's a few videos I took last weekend at the Cumberland Valley Antique Engine & Machinery Association's Spring 2008 Steam & Gas show:

Three Hit-n-Miss engines

1/4 Scale model of a Reid 6 Hp 2-Cycle oil field engine

15 HP Reid 2-cycle engine

Several Large, antique industrial Gas engines

1908 Peerless steam Traction Engine

 

[Stormrage]

Saw it on the funny pics thread, thought you guys might like it

 

[jlvfr]

Some documentation, maybe?

http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Ann-VanderMeer/dp/1892391759/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212185655&sr=1-1

 

[Blue Monkey]

Annotated "map" of 221B Baker Street.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Taking my daily perusal of wikipedia's front page reveals the following -

"The Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar on 27 August 1896. With a duration of around 40 minutes, it holds the record of being the shortest war in recorded history"

"Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan"

Think of the potential steampunkery!

 

[jlvfr]

Just found this on youtube. Be patient with the start, it is steampunk related... sort of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ylO7GoMMw

 

[Blue Monkey]

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SAY SOMETHING?

 

[Blue Monkey]

From the Ghoulish Gallery - a purveyor of "changing portraits", whose web site is temporarily down for reconstruction.

Potential LH? Diplomatic Advisor? Oct. 31st Easter Egg?

 

[Blue Monkey]

Just Another Roadside Attraction: The Union Army vs. Gwangi @ Professor Cline’s Dinosaur Kingdom

 

[Axolotl]

I don't know if anyone else has read it, but S.M. Peters' Whitechapel Gods might prove to be a font of inspiration. You've got two mechanical deities, Mama Engine and Grandfather Clock, who have walled off the titular section of Victorian London for purposes unknown; you've got a disease called "the clanks" that progressively turns blood to oil and muscles to gears; you've got biomechanical monstrosities such as clickrats and Ticker Hounds haunting the dark places. There are unkillable men, the gold cloaks and black cloaks, who have sold out to the gods, and had their hearts replaced with coal-fired furnaces. And there are the Boiler Men, clockwork brutes armed with mechanical rifles and gouts of scalding steam. The story kind of leaves something to be desired (it is essentially a steampunk retelling of The Matrix), but for atmosphere it's pretty intense (and, just maybe, full of mod ideas).

 

[Blue Monkey]

Thanks, Axolotl. I'd seen the title; with your advice it's made it onto my ever lengthening "to read" list.

 

[jlvfr]

A few more examples of veeeery nice steam punk modern gear:

http://weburbanist.com/2008/11/19/steampunk-hijacks-hi-tech-design-art-fashion/

 

[Blue Monkey]

I was looking at a French site including a biography of Vidocq. There was a link to Vidocq: The Steampunk Adventure - an interactive, with downloadable episode in English. Looks tasty!

 

[Moosezilla]

I see nothing.... How do I Download? Thanx in advance.

 

[Blue Monkey]

I was looking at a French site including a biography of Vidocq. There was a link to Vidocq: The Steampunk Adventure - an interactive, with downloadable episode in English. Looks tasty!

I see nothing.... How do I Download? Thanx in advance.

Somehow the google tranlsation is messing up the links. Try this page instead. You'll be emailed the episodes you request, which I understand are interactive pdf.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Ev'ry self-respecting steampunk world must include a Scots engineer:

The site also has such stock characters as the doctor firmly grounded in the quotidian, the swarthy & mysterious foreign scientist, and of course the dashing young captain.

 

[Blue Monkey]

I'm not sure we'd want to use it as an improvement, let alone a small wonder, but I had never heard of a magic brothel, until it showed up on Wikipedia's front page. More proof that truth is weirder than steampunk.

 

[Moosezilla]

re:Vidocq- it has encryption??? don't know how to decryp! thanx in advance again!

 

[Blue Monkey]

re:Vidocq- it has encryption??? don't know how to decryp! thanx in advance again!

Not sure what you mean. Are you talking about the site I linked to? About getting the episodes in English?

 

[Moosezilla]

I downloaded the files and my adobe cant read it.