Boiler and stationary engine on the back wall, and all that lovely lineshafting!  Lineshafts were the preferred method of power transmission in the steam days. They were versatile (even included variable drive speeds by switching a belt from on drive pulley to another), could accommodate different rotational directions, and were simple and easy to maintain. [...]

A few server issues took us down for a bit, but we’re back! A little cleaning up to do, and it’s business as normal.. stay tuned!
Harold

Tesla Coils and Sparks Fly at White Mischief!
“On Saturday March 27 in London, England, White Mischief is holding a massive multi-room steampunk party called The Great Exhibition. White Mischief will be celebrating three years of neo-Victorian entertainments with its biggest line-up yet.
Some of the UK’s best-known exponents of steampunk craft will be in attendance, including [...]

After yesterday’s  set of large steam engines, let’s have a look at the other end of the spectrum.  Here are some of the works of Iqbal Ahmed, an engineer/machinist in India. He currently holds the Guinness World record for the smallest working steam engine.
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Time to put some steam back into Steampunk. For your enjoyment, a few pics from my collection, showing some rather large stationary steam engines.
Most of these are in the 8000HP range, with  one (the first one shown),  being 12,000hp (it powered the steel rolling equipment in a rolling mill)

illogika Studios (a new indie game developer in Montreal) recently released our first iPhone game called Steam Wars. It is a steampunk styled game where two steam powered robots fight each other on tiny planets using artillery weapons.
Steam Wars Video preview
Steam Wars is currently available in the apps section ofiTunes .

With a brand new website and a full section in english, I invite you to meet French gentleman Maurice Sandalette and his lovely assistant, Miss Prann.
Brilliantly funny and definitely steampunk, “Les Historiettes de Monsieur Sandalette” are a serie of daguerrotype-novels full of aliens, tentacles and sea monsters.
Enjoy!

The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition, will be  coming to Emeryville, CA March 12th through the 14th.
The Exhibition is a 3-day event which includes presentations, panel discussions, lectures and interactive workshops, as well as evening entertainment, a huge vendor area, a Museum of Curiosities and more. Open to all ages, Steam-X  takes the best elements of traditional science [...]

I literally just stumbled upon this having met the webmaster last night at a party.  For anyone planning travel to, or who may live in Barcelona, they have your fix over at Steampunk SP!
http://www.steampunksp.es/portal/
Also direct link to their Spanish Language Steampunk forum:
http://foro.steampunksp.es/

This struck my eye back in December but I’m afraid I was lazy and I never mentioned it, so here we are!
The Volcania Volunteers are some incredible artists for design junkies like myself.  First off they have a very nice looking site:  http://www.vulcaniavolunteers.com/
They are an organization which provides highly accurate models of items and diagrams [...]