Firstly I must thank reader Cylver for sending the link to the SparkMuseum, and then I must thank Mr John Jenkins, owner of the SparkMuseum for graciously allowing me to use one of his images in this post. Many thanks to you both. The SparkMuseum itself is a site filled to the brim with radio and scientific apparatus from before 1920 – and includes lovelies such as leyden jars, crystal radios, keyboard based telegraphs and the above German electrical phrenology apparatus. More than one evening’s worth of browsing these stranger than fiction historical artifacts, and great inspiration for Steampunk fans.

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You may have noticed that my liking for Steampunk often manifests itself in a facination for things made from brass – well, the above gyroscope, inspired by the sorts of gyroscopes used in 19th Century university lectures, is made from solid brass, and is quite handsome. From the very well named, Gyroscope.Com it’s one of several different kinds of gyroscopes, spinning tops, Stirling engines, combustion engines, governors and ornithopters. So terribly lovely to look at, and they seem to ship to all manner of places. Alas though – I doubt I can justify the above gyroscope to myself quite yet, but maybe one of the smaller specimens might not be so hard to allow myself!

I’ll mention too, that I stumbled apon the site after reading the advert in this month’s New Scientist magazine – not my usual method of attribution, but I felt I should mention something.

The submitter of this link, dmacq, described the metal devices as heartbreakingly beautiful – and I’m inclined to agree. The Harmonium (above) is made by a creator of, well, many things. A very creative person, Tatjana van Vark is probably beyond my understanding, but the things he makes please my eye – the above Harmonium (that does something with fouriers) to the Dynamic Distractor with peculiar moving liquids, to the mind boggling but utterly Steampunk Coding Machine.

Thankfully, I don’t need to understand exactly what they do, to enjoy their Steampunkness.

Mr Wretched (lovely name, Sir) does like his cars – he likes them so very much that he even takes them apart and uses the parts to make things – like cog belt buckles. Mr M Moores was kind enough to point them out to me, as I doubt I’d have found these myself. Mr Wretched seems to be more of a pulp/40′s kind of gentleman, with a liking for photography in the same style – but it is the belt buckles that seem to veer cogwards with alarming frequency. Nice, but in no way subtle chuckles

Looks like some kind of steam walker, but it’s actually one of the Stirling engines from the Bohm range – the HB14, in fact. Mr Beaty discovered the lot of them when browsing the Mamod Steam Engine website (as you do) and was gripped with a need to possess these beautiful little machines. Whether or not he was able to restrain himself, is currently unknown, but I can certainly empathise. They’re beautiful little works of mechanical precision, able to demonstrate that while steam will get the job done in double quick time – heating air can get the job done too, just a little slower.

Mr Park found this artist‘s site chock full of interesting metal sculptures of insects, birds and fish. Mr Martinet uses found objects to construct his sculptures – assembling them without welding, and still managing to get a very solid and realistic (if you know what I mean) feel to them. This rusty ladybird (or ladybug, depending) jumped out at me as something that a Steampunk inventor might have scurrying around on his desk as a toy, trying to eat the green sleeve fabric on his patched, dusty suit jacket and being waved away impatiently.

My second favourite, must be the spider that he’s made – sitting on a web apparently constructed from shiny sink-plug chains. That conjours up a far murkier Steampunk world, where mechanical spiders rule in a factory long abandoned, weaving giant metal webs that connect crumbing chimney stacks. Nice stuff; thanks Mr Park!

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Now, this kind of model most likely predates the Steampunk era flavour, but I believe it’s close enough to warrant a post. It certainly looks lovely – it’s by the 3d artist Mr Al-Muharraqi and features a mechanical Arabian Warrior Steed. I love the idea that this gives off, that there could be whole cavalry divisions charging over sand dunes, kicking up veritible sandstorms in their wake and fine metallic swishing and clinking echoing for a mile or more.

Suggestions that the feet are too small to handle sand dunes properly will be met with withering glances. chuckles Check out the site for other images, though possibly the only other ancient-mechanical themed one would be the ornate, bird of prey automata. Thanks to Mr S Kraft for knowing a good 3d model when he sees one.

Mr Moores found the above image, this one here and it’s brother on Flickr recently – and what a delightful contraption it looks like too! There’s no information to be found on the pictures, but it’s in a set called the Laughing Squid anniversary party. Looks like a fun party – mind you, any party with such a super whizzy looking vehicle looks to be a memorable, and interesting party. Thanks, Mr Moores!

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Many thanks, Jonnotantan for the link to the above video! Showing some kind of promotional video for Besler and their steam cars and apparently the first (and only?) ever efficient steam plane. Apparently it claimed that if you looked to be running out of fuel in your steam plane, you might merely find a nice clearing next to a lake, take yourself down and filter the water into the boiler and find some nice fallen firewood for your boiler. Doesn’t sound too practical to me, but it’s more feasible than finding a handy oil well and refining your own petrol.

Lovely illustration, isn’t it? While I realise I posted about Aurelien Police just recently, I found this new (and delightful) illustration linked on Jambalaya. I liked it so much I needed to give it it’s own post. Apparently inspired by the Ray Bradbury novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I just see it as a strange and dark offspring from the unholy coupling of a steam train and a caliope. Imagine the music it would make!