No doubt many of you are familiar with the Thief series – our old friend Garrett the master thief sneaking around an alternative history of swords and arrows, castles and steam power, rooftops and electrical lighting. Like a strange Medieval-Steampunk crossover, the world of Thief is both strange and familiar – it works. [...]

Mr J Gaynor reminded me about the Japanese anime, Last Exile – which has some distinctly Steampunk themes to it. Now, I’ve only watched the first episode, and I have to say that it didn’t immediately grab me and refuse to let go. I’m not sure if anime series are generally slow burners, [...]

In July of 1894, in a London borough and in front of many specially invited guests (Prince of Wales, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells) the above steam powered vehicle created by Hiram Stevens Maxim accellerated up to 42mph and with the help of the ‘aeroplanes’ (or wings as we refer to [...]

No, your eyes do not deceive you – it is in fact a steam powered moped! That most maligned of two-wheeled vehicles aquires a clumsy nobility in being powered by our favourite form of water. I can tell that Andy_W was quite impressed when he sent me the link, as he was full [...]

You will probably remember the video of the Steampunk mechanical, ridable lion (sic) that I posted about some time ago – well, it transpired that it wasn’t a lion, it was a tiger called Shiva. I apologise, Shiva.
However, via the Spanish blog TauZero, I rediscovered Shiva and its creator – from the Kezanti Art [...]

Mike ST (creator of the lovely real brass goggles) sends word about the Steam Clocks around the world – the one above being from Vancouver in Canada. Wikipedia has a good page on the existance of these clocks, rare as they are, and I was surprised at their modernity! Apparently most of them [...]

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Very short, but quite sweet – this video clip found on Google Video by Mr S Field shows the start up of an early 1910-1920’s steam plane (watch for the smoke chimney).  I love the little salute the man in uniform gives!

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Sometimes, my heart swells with longing – such as when I first heard about the historic journey of the Spirit of Dubai, largest commercial airship currently in the skies. It doesn’t hurt that on the airships MySpace page, they’re playing a lovely version of ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ that just makes me think of [...]

Many thanks, Mr J.E. Park for sending in this wonderful link! The Cornell University’s digital library for kinematic models (whew!) is a perfectly wonderful collection of pictures, histories and even occasional videos demonstrating kinematic components and movements so that even a layperson like myself can understand them! The model above is Q03: [...]

Mr N Barnes and Mr Q Walpole both independently sent word about a new game from the creators of Puzzle Pirates – Bang! Howdy! I had been in the beta some time ago, but abandoned it after being unable to get past the tutorial without it crashing – I submitted the bug (the duty [...]