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Lastly, because I only just saw this over at BoingBoing, a video from 1908 of Moscow in the snow. It’s beautiful and very slightly haunting – with cheerfully marching guards with their bayonetted guns, giant cannons next to the palace walls (and I do mean giant) to people skiing through the park or making [...]

Is it a spaceman? A creature from Mars? Some form of mechanical man? Nope, it’s an early atmospheric diving suit from 1924 by Pop Peress, designed to protect the user from the pressures of deep diving.
Beaty, previously of the Sketchup Steampunk Moon Base, had been searching for appropriate protective wear for the [...]

Mr Edgar Park very kindly pointed out the above absurdly pretty steam kit that as far as I can tell, is a steam engine and plant in one. While Mr Park found the above at a page called The Great Toy Steam Company, in my search for more information, I also found the [...]

Oh and it was a mighty battle – trying to get my new tutorial up in a WordPress page. Such fighting with bolds and paragraphs! But despite that, my new tutorial for hastily making a pair of costume goggles from traditionally “Blue Peter”-like materials (toilet rolls etc) is now up. You can [...]

Is it ironic that a shop with the address NewEnergyShop should have so very many steam engines? Including kits showing you the principles behind Hero’s engine of the 1st Century AD? Possibly, but I’m certainly not about to hold it against them – not when they sell such beautiful and educational steam toys [...]

The very kind Lady Hoffman, of previous pinhole camera and metal book fame, wanted to share with me the works of an artist called Wayne Martin Belger – who amongst other things, makes delightful art-pinhole cameras like the one above (entitled ‘Untouchable’). Apparently, he uses his many pinhole cameras to also take photographs that [...]

Well, my eyes were truly opened today! I had been advised of an absolutely wonderful looking book (I will make a seperate post about it, but my mail program is down right now so I cannot give credit yet) and went down to my local WH Smith (stationers and bookshop) to see if I [...]

Mr Hildebrandt informed me about a PDA/Palmtop game that he had his eye on – a game by the name of Syberia. Now, while I do not own one of these contraptions, I did find that the game was available for the normal sized PC, and indeed that it spawned a sequal. What [...]

Not long after I had been terribly impressed by the worlds first commercial tracked vehicle, being as it was terribly Steampunk, a gentle reader who I know only as Jonnotantan went one better and drew my attention to another very early piece of curiously mobile farm machinery – the Darby Steam-Digger. Not only was [...]

Apparently Mr Mike Estee was cleaning out his abode when he was reminded of a comic that he owns – the Scarlet Traces comic from Dark Horse Comics. Based on the aftermath of the War of the Worlds in an alternative history that sees the British Empire the most powerful and feared power on [...]