Oh Mr Von Slatt! What a marvelous and quirky pair of contraptions you have created – the above is one of two telegraph sounder replicas that he has designed and made himself. This one is brass, the other is the ‘Airship Edition’ aluminium one for when weight is at a premium. Not only are they beautiful in themselves, but they have been rigged up (next to his famous keyboard, I might add) and set to tap out the morse version of RSS feeds that he’s wired into! So terribly amusing.

While I’ve watched the video of it in action, I’m still not sure if I’d find the constant tap tappety tap of RSS feeds in the background annoying, or eminently comforting. There is information in the air – and even though I cannot understand it (my morse is atrocious, really) I would know it was all around me. What a great idea – and an excellent article to accompany them – full of detail and guidance. You are a wizard of Steampunk, Sir.  (Oh, and thank you, Mr Malaclypse, for pointing this out too.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 8:41 pm by Tinkergirl and is filed under Steampunk Images.