Mr Von Slatt very kindly thought of Brass Goggles when he found a page devoted to railroads with an Oddities and Curiosities section – and I am grateful that he did. The page, Railroad Extra, has articles reproduced from old periodicals and publications on subjects as marvelous as Elevated Railways (above image) from 1886, [...]

Over at Make:Blog (and through the kind notification of Mr Josh Swinehart) we find an impressively modified antique stereoscope, changed to allow the viewing of 3d video. I do like this – it’s very much combining the ingenuity of the Victorians with the technology of today – here, the creator was gifted this stereoscope [...]

Over at Popular Science magazine, they did an article about the future luxury hotel and cruise opportunities for the Aeroscraft. A hybrid airship, one that uses both the buoyancy of helium and conventional propulsion to get the best of both worlds, the Aeroscraft sounds like a wonderful idea (as long as the Helium shortage [...]

I’m really rather honoured that Mr Meinert Hansen let me know about his webpage of artworks today, a page called Fiction Science. While I didn’t recognise the name (but I shall remember it in future) this gentleman was responsible for concept work on the television series, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne! Above [...]

The Zeppelin Library Archive is a lovely page with some (small) images of zeppelins, the history behind the zeppelins (along with the Crazy Count Zeppelin himself – he showed them), and much more information about these most alphabetically tardy of lighter than air vehicles. From their use in war, to their use in civilian [...]

I’ve linked to The Great Toy Steam Engine Company before, but this little item they have surely deserves a post of its own! Kind Mr Park pointed it out, and it’s a steam powered (attach it to your handy Wilesco engine) flapping and twirling flying machine/boat model. There’s wings to flap and [...]

I was over reading the Steampunk forum at Nov-Net when a kind poster over there calling themselves ‘Nobody’ posted a link to a collection of illustrations that I believe are quite stylistically Steampunk. Beautifully detailed, with marvelous hats and an almost Tim Burton like lankiness to the characters. You can see the rest [...]

Mr. Nicodemus Mannerings kindly sends word of a roleplaying game system that he encountered at his local gaming convention – called Passages – which seems very amusingly tongue in cheek and variably Steampunk. Why variably? Well it seems to allow you to base your adventures off the most famous of Victorian era literature [...]

They say that wonders will never cease – and so it seem that Doktor A is quite surely wonderous! The above is a modified vinyl toy currently being displayed in the Operation Fragmentation exhibition. To call it a toy is to almost belittle Doktor A’s efforts though, as it really is quite the [...]

Despairing of finding things that are suitably Steampunk for your tastes? Mr Hildebrandt most likely was, and so he went hunting for it in his very own home – and found an old clock. While initially it just looked a little worse for wear, on partial dismantlement for the timepiece he discovered that [...]