Firstly I must thank reader Cylver for sending the link to the SparkMuseum, and then I must thank Mr John Jenkins, owner of the SparkMuseum for graciously allowing me to use one of his images in this post. Many thanks to you both. The SparkMuseum itself is a site filled to the brim [...]

You may have noticed that my liking for Steampunk often manifests itself in a facination for things made from brass - well, the above gyroscope, inspired by the sorts of gyroscopes used in 19th Century university lectures, is made from solid brass, and is quite handsome. From the very well named, Gyroscope.Com it’s one [...]

The submitter of this link, dmacq, described the metal devices as heartbreakingly beautiful - and I’m inclined to agree. The Harmonium (above) is made by a creator of, well, many things. A very creative person, Tatjana van Vark is probably beyond my understanding, but the things he makes please my eye - the [...]

Mr Wretched (lovely name, Sir) does like his cars - he likes them so very much that he even takes them apart and uses the parts to make things - like cog belt buckles. Mr M Moores was kind enough to point them out to me, as I doubt I’d have found these myself. [...]

Looks like some kind of steam walker, but it’s actually one of the Stirling engines from the Bohm range - the HB14, in fact. Mr Beaty discovered the lot of them when browsing the Mamod Steam Engine website (as you do) and was gripped with a need to possess these beautiful little machines. [...]

Mr Park found this artist’s site chock full of interesting metal sculptures of insects, birds and fish. Mr Martinet uses found objects to construct his sculptures - assembling them without welding, and still managing to get a very solid and realistic (if you know what I mean) feel to them. This rusty ladybird [...]

Now, this kind of model most likely predates the Steampunk era flavour, but I believe it’s close enough to warrant a post. It certainly looks lovely - it’s by the 3d artist Mr Al-Muharraqi and features a mechanical Arabian Warrior Steed. I love the idea that this gives off, that there could be [...]

Mr Moores found the above image, this one here and it’s brother on Flickr recently - and what a delightful contraption it looks like too! There’s no information to be found on the pictures, but it’s in a set called the Laughing Squid anniversary party. Looks like a fun party - mind you, [...]

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Many thanks, Jonnotantan for the link to the above video! Showing some kind of promotional video for Besler and their steam cars and apparently the first (and only?) ever efficient steam plane. Apparently it claimed that if you looked to be running out of fuel in your steam plane, you might merely find [...]

Lovely illustration, isn’t it? While I realise I posted about Aurelien Police just recently, I found this new (and delightful) illustration linked on Jambalaya. I liked it so much I needed to give it it’s own post. Apparently inspired by the Ray Bradbury novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I just see [...]