Spurious Contraptions & Other Steampunk Oddities

While trolling for images I found one for a Wonder. I haven't reserved the last two colors in the palette yet. This one is meant ironically and humorously, in the spirit of Flashman or the movie "The Man Who Would Be King". Please don't look if you're bothered by the Victorian attitude of "White Man's Burden".

Spoiler :
Bringing Pizza To The Wogs
Increases Commerce, Causes Corruption

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KingArthur said:
In here goes some off the wall stuff that probably won't make it into my steampunk scenario. It's all steampunk related of sorts.

Here's my contribution: Steam Punk Star Wars

http://ericpoulton.blogspot.com/search/label/steampunk star wars
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HOLY SPIT!!! YOU'RE THAT GUY?!!?!? I don't know if you're aware of this, but your art has been featured on the Brass Goggles Stempunk Blog and other related sites (like the Aether Emporium).

Blue Monkey: I know (well as well as you can know someone through the internet anyways) Jake von Slatt and Doc Nagy (the creators of the two computational devices you have pictured)... BTW, that telegraph sounder to the right of Jake's keyboard actually works, and is hooked up to his computer using a program that converts ASCII to morse code and it'll clack it out for him. Doc also has a steampunk laptop and scanner that he made (his laptop actually uses a clock windup key to turn on!!).

As for Vernian Process, I've recieved permission to use two of his Final Fantasy covers (Aeris's theme and The Highwind Takes to the Skies) for the FF mod, so He probably would be cool with us using his songs for this scenario... I'll PM him over at the stempunk forums and see if he's cool with that.

Oh, nice smiley, King Arthur... I'll have to let Tinkergirl (Brass Goggles Site Admin) know about it and see if she'll add it to the SPF smilie list....
 
Ah yes that will be a nice touch thanks.

I think I have some of it already since it was used in an expanded Napoleonic scenario.
 
Great news guys!!! I just logged into the Steampunk Forums, and found a new PM in my folder.

To my surprise it was from Vernian Process (I was just about to PM him), and here's what he said:

Vernian Process said:
Hey man, I just noticed the thread over in the civilization forum, you can let those guys knopw they are welcome to use any of my tracks, as long as they credit them properly. And if anyone uses any of my covers make sure they credit it to the original composer/copyright holder as well.

Oh and can you let that guy Plotinus know that the new album will have an even better production quality than The Forgotten Age.

Cool thanks man!
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So, there you have it, straight from the man himself! :D
 
That's great. Nice to have a bit of inter-forum interaction going on there. The forgotten age has become my current music-to-have-on-while-working of choice so I shall be watching eagerly for the next one!
 
Yeah, Like I said, I'm already using his renditions of The Highwind Takes Flight and Aeris's Theme for the FF mod, plus a few other songs from his symphonic collection are in my playlist....
 
That's splendid HT, please pass on my thanks and assure him that he will be fully credited. Great to know we have such esteemed lurkers too.
 
Another one of Datamancer's steampunk computers - a laptop - made it to Technovelgy.com. Be sure to check out the 1600-1899 section of their timeline of when inventions were first mentioned in fiction.

Oh yeah, best for last, there's a guy who's using twin Tesla coils as stereo speakers. Not to power the audio, the coils are the speakers. I guess we'll have to add Surround Sound as a tech. And add Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" to the soundtrack.

Now that I think about it, probably only Tesla coils could drown out the noise of a clacking kinotrope. Apropos of which, here's a link to the Difference Dictionary.


Edit: And here's a goof about the entertainment offered on the Titanic. Maybe in a SteamPunk world they too would have used a clacking kinotrope.
 
Plotinus said:
My God, what's their carbon footprint?
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You mean the audiophile Tesla coils? I would think ozone would be a bigger issue than CO2. Of course they could grab power from the aether as Tesla originally intended.
 
Just thought I'd mention the Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, even though I'm sure a lot of you have already heard of it. I borrowed it from a local library. It's a guide to the fantastic literature written roughly during the period, written by the same fellow who wrote those guides to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. If nothing else it could be a source for plenty of GL names. Look up "Electric Bob"'s entry for example. Maybe he'd be a good choice for a Science Advisor head.
 
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