Chris wrote to me some time ago to point out the works of Henri Van Herwegen, who goes by the name Panamarenko.  Panamarenko’s works include a great many variations on the love of flight, particularly human powered or human centred – so there are giant wing cars, bubble spaceships, a beautiful, fan-filled flying backpack (which [...]

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All Aboard for Cloudland, originally uploaded by ponto.

“Susie and her little sister were a little nervous when they began their first ride on the transcontinental blimp express. Only the pilot appeared confident.”

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Mr Woodson (via the House & Garden site) writes to tell of a shop called Urban Archeology.  Now, don’t be dissapointed that it doesn’t advocate digging up your neighbours garden to find treasure, but what it does have is a perfectly wonderful collection of lights.  My personal favourite category is the Exterior Wallmount lights, because [...]

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I was browsing Flickr today, and discovered a lovely photograph of a modern looking pedal powered airship (and it wasn’t the familiar White Dwarf Blimp that we’ve sighed over before).  A little bit of sleuthing, and the magnificience that is Zeppy the pedal-powered, golden airship, was revealed!  (Beware, the site is a little… rough around [...]

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Mr Angus McQuarrie (what a good name, Mr McQuarrie), writes to tell me about a new novel for the younger of heart Steampunk fans – a tale of two orphan children, worlds apart, who are caught up in a terrible series of events involving an evil that was thought vanquished so long ago. Entitled The [...]

These are simply perfect – seen on BoingBoing today (what a find, Mr Doctorow!) they’re by the Deviantart user Y4G3R (who I believe also goes by Mr M. Edward Yager, but I could be wrong).  They are real, brass goggles, also including bronze, copper, stainless steel, springs, plastic lenses and more.  So delightfully Steampunk that [...]

Mr AndyW wrote to point out the works of musical circuitsmith, Tim Kaiser of AtomicSonic.  While the majority of the works are themed too late for Steampunk, there are a few (such as the ones above) that I wouldn’t mind having sat in a bakelite enabled (1908-ish) electrically focused laboratory!
The items above are ‘FX Boxes’, [...]

Forgive me for location dropping, but I was at Chasewater Railway steam day recently, and in the shop I bought a Victorian Household memorabelia pack filled with replical printed sundries from the era. Made by the Memorabilia Pack Company, it’s just one of several historically themed replica packs. This one, I was delighted [...]

You may remember the good Professor Fzz’s previous copper tubing lamp – well he has created another, inspired by the look of a steam engine water level tube (much like the one on the back of a fire engine).  Not only are there beautiful photographs of the finished article (and surrounded by so much brass!) [...]

This is a review from the ever interesting Madam Grand Duchess from the forums, of the Japanese Gakken science kit Hooke Microscope.  She has recently recieved the kit through the post and wrote a perfectly wonderful review from the a Steampunk enthusiast’s view:
“The box containing the parts for the microscope had a magazine attached to [...]