That you might enjoy..
Queen Street Mill 500Hp tandem steam engine

Milton Rally – 2004

I certainly could have used something like this over the last few days, having been stricken with a bad case of plantar fasciitis, which makes walking pretty darn painful..
Found over at Smee’s Stuff
“What you get when you mix an 1875 Eastlake Victorian platform rocking chair with a Permobil C300 Power wheelchair and a [...]

Atlas Obscura , a compendium of this age’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica is holding an International Obscura Day.
“The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored [...]

It might be of interest that Rudyard Kipling penned a tale called: ” With The Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D”  featuring airships..

It can be downloaded in several formats from Project Gutenberg

Billed as   A Three-Day Expedition into Yesterday’s Future! ,   the  “enormous and fantastic creature which is the first Steampunk Festival in the United States!”, will take place on May 14th-16th 2010, at the Radisson of Piscataway, in the lovely state of New Jersey.

“PWF is the first East Coast event to welcome Steampunks, [...]

As Fred Dibnah would have said “Did yer like that?”, and seeing as you did, ‘ere’s some more..

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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