There’s just something very wonderful about steam powered motorcycles. We saw several a couple of weeks ago, and then even more came to our attention – and today we have one that Mr Addison (a regular contributer, and an appreciated one) found – the 1970’s Arthur Hubbard motorcycle conversion.
What’s the obsession, do you think? [...]

Mr M. Moores sent me a few links some time ago, and one of those was for the company Stanley London (beware, the front page makes a strange noise and has a rather amusing picture of a young lady and a telescope, in my opinion). The company seems to stock a great deal of [...]

Arthur Ganson makes some very pretty, very delicate and very thoughtful looking kinetic sculptures. From never-ending trails of chain going through a tube, to very exhausted looking wishbones pulling contraptions along the floor, to seemingly pointless connections of wire cogs, turned by hand.
In particular I’d recommend the high res images in the images section, [...]

A curious thing to post about, an obituary but I’d like to here.  The Telegraph has an article about the life of the recently passed Lt Col John Pine-Coffin, of the Kings African Rifles and Parachute Regiment.  And what a life it was, my personal favourite tale that is recounted:

“A series of staff appointments followed. [...]

I’m sure there’s probably a law against falling head over heels for a tractor, but my goodness, if the Hornsby Chain Tractor isn’t the most beautifully Steampunk contraption that was intended for farm use! (Well ok – there are some very nice traction engines too, but just look at it!)
You’ll find a slightly larger [...]

A Mr. John Park kindly alerted me to a very Steampunk text adventure (or Interactive Fiction, as is the current name for the genre) called Slouching Towards Bedlam. How Steampunk? Well, it’s set in the 1800’s around London, and you’re surrounded by madmen, inventors, steam devices, calculating devices (which follow you around) and [...]

(William) Heath Robinson is a household name in the UK, and I’m sure many people don’t know all that much about him – or why we refer to peculiar convoluted machines as being a bit “Heath-Robinson”. Well, Mr Robinson was a turn of the century illustrator who will be remembered most for his illustrations [...]

Make (and I believe several other places today) have posted about this lovely device above – a device that will show you in no uncertain terms how certain ‘things’ are doing. What things? Well, that’s up to you – the Device plugs in to your computer and you use the software provided to [...]

You may recall that Penguin UK were releasing a 10 part Steampunk novel, and indeed some of you may have recieved your first part today, but for the rest of us – either still waiting, or unable to enjoy this retrospective experiment with publishing, there is the online interactive fiction (IF) game to play. [...]

If you recal the beautiful Steampunk laptop I posted about a few days ago, you may remember that the site it was from was beyond my ken. However, the resourceful Mr Andy W asked a good friend of his to translate the page, and so we have some more information regarding it’s construction.
“I tried [...]