Well, some people are just inconsiderate, you know – you find a link (thanks Make) for a beautiful, handcrafted brass pinhole camera like the one above, you follow the links and find that the creator, in this case the talented Judith Hoffman, makes quite a few beautiful Steampunk items (Instruction Manual for the Moon, anyone?). Worse still – she has made available tutorials on making some of the things she does! Just not cricket – how am I supposed to give enough space in a post to do it justice?

Follow the tutorial links for step by step instructions for making your own metal books, how to rivet found items (like cogs) on to your metal books, and how to make your own pinhole camera. Many, many thanks, Mrs/Miss/Ms Hoffman!

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Mr Darryl Boyd has written up plans on how to make your own Stirling hot air engine, and if you read the additional notes, you don’t even need to have a lathe to do it! Mr Boyd has posted the plans up for free on his website, in the interest of sharing information about the Stirling engine – which I think is very noble of him. If you scroll down on the front page, you’ll find the gallery of engines from some of the people who have made the engine (including the one by Mr Gordon Harris, who’s forgiveness I beg for posting his image above). If I can somehow get my nontechnical mind around those plans, I may have a go at making one myself – but of course, in a Steampunk style. If you do the same, let me know.

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You may have already seen this, but it’s a handbuilt mechanical lion created by an artist in Brugge going for its very first outdoor ride. Utterly magnificient and strangely majestic, I can imagine pompous Steampunk kings going for a stroll down the beaches riding a beast like this. This artist, is definitely one to watch! (Thanks MikeST and BoingBoing, independantly.)

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Too often, beautiful Steampunk things are out of stock, date, or production – and so it is with the Crazy Inventors range of Meccano sets. Meccano itself is a Victorian era company – where Mr Frank Hornby first made little bolts, nuts and metal strips for his children to make things with around the year 1898.

Far more recently, however, Meccano released the Crazy Inventors set – one with models like the one above, and including an airship model, a flying-winged car and a wooden-winged helicopter. Sounds fantastically Steampunk? I thought so – but the line has been discontinued, and it’s only in places like Ebay and other toyshops with older stock that you can now find them. Screw and Mutter (German site, Google translated) has some interesting photographs of the boxes of the set, and it seems that the helicopter set at least can still be bought from Hobbytime, and the most of the collection from Meccanoman. Looks like they went out of production around 2004 – so close, and yet…

The ever amusing, BigRedHair site (also well known for its Steam Men and in particular – Boilerplate) has several pages devoted to the characters Frank Reade Jr and his daughter, Kate Reade. This pair are mentioned as being the greatest explorers of their age – and predating Verne’s tales of exploration by some amount. It is said that these two had airships of the greatest invention – ones with electrified decks and the ability to seal themselves tight against the troubles of high altitude.

The pictures and engravings of the delightfully fanciful airships are quite marvelous, with their many umbrella-like propellers and their sails, flags and wings. Thank you, S. Addison.

[EDIT] Warning – the ordering period for these books has closed as of 12th October. If they become available some other way, I will update this post, and create a new one about their availablility. My apologies.

Oh oh oh! Now this is just my cup of tea! Penguin have decided to re-introduce the old Victorian fashion of weekly issues of a book – and they’ve got a Steampunk story to do so with! The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters, by CW Dahlquist (a pen name) tales a rollicking story of adventure in a Victorian styled city with some terrible secrets and dastardly villians! Following the antics of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Doctor Svenson as they unwravel mysteries and plots in a city with masked balls, devious princes and assasins for hire.

As you might be able to tell, I am downright excited by this, but I will add a caution – this is only for readers in the United Kingdom, for just now, as Penguin don’t deliver outside the Isles. For those who can order, beware that there’s going to be a limited run of 5000 sets, and you’ll recieve one of the very handsome books a week, for 10 weeks for your £25. I ordered this morning, and I am quite beside myself with excitement. Thanks to BoingBoing for posting about it.

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Mr A Samuel kindly drew my attention to some lovely YouTube videos of the quite amazing 18th Century automata that were created by Pierre Jaquet-Droz and his son – The Writer, The Drawer and The Musician.  Above you can see a French documentary on The Writer, and see for yourself the downright mindboggling complexity and finesse of a machine of cogs and springs, able to write with a goose feather quill.  Alas, my French is atrocious, but the images speak for themselves.  For more, see links for How the Writer Works, a video of The Writer in action, and some more about Pierre Jaquet-Droz himself.  It’s amazing that these things could be made, it’s amazing that they were made in the 18th Century and it’s even more amazing that they were created mostly as advertisements for music boxes and mechanical caged birds.  Quite boggling.

Doktor A seems to be making a habit of creating lovely little custom vinyl dolls – the one above is called Automatic Girl, and you can see more photographs here. The little brass gears in her headdress were apparently from a vintage pocket watch. I weep for the pocket watch, but the gears certainly went to good use! While we’re at it, though – I may as well point out another lovely Steampunk styled custom that he’s been up to – Professor Teslastein and his electric monster, for example. Thanks, Doktor A – it’s always nice to see more Steampunk creations!

A few days ago I received an æthervox from Commadore Maxby of the HMAS Dauntless, singing the praises of the brave men and women who explore the solar-system for Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. In his words:

“These are the voyages of Her Majesty’s Æther Ship Dauntless. Our mission, to explore romantic new worlds, seek out life, and expand civilization, to boldly go where no gentleman has gone before.”

It may sound familiar, but this is exploration of a Steampunk solar-system – it is Steam Trek. A play-by-email Steampunk Star Trek blend, with a very detailed and informative website. I wish I’d gotten on better with play-by-email games in the past, but alas – I never found my footing in the one game I played (not Steam Trek, I hasten to add).

Good luck to you and your crew, Commadore Maxby – for Queen and Country.

Thanks to Andy_W, he pointed out a lovely page of pictures of pioneering heavier-than-air flying machine recreations. Pentavista Digital Imaging (what a curiously ambigious name) has photographs of reproductions of flying machines that date back to 1856! Quite strange they are too. The peculiar one pictured above is titled 1911 Kitchen Biplane rep. Can’t imagine how it flew, but I suppose it did! Clever, those early 20′th Century types.