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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

petermorwood:

alfredlordtennisanyone:

Modes of Travel [Part 1]

Some took trains, others steamships. Still others found comfort lounging around the grounds of their luxury hotels. Whatever the case, in a world that was increasingly moving towards the speed of light, travelers were looking for an escape from the tired monotony of stationary life.

This is a nice selection of mostly-period travel posters, in the same style as the reproduction period airline/shipping/hotel stickers we have on our luggage which makes spotting them on the carousel a doddle. The bottom-row extreme left and extreme right are modern, but catch the mood and the imagery of the originals.

petermorwood: my-ear-trumpet: messytimetravel: Proposed desert crossing vehicle 1931-1932 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13577,_Entwurf_eines_W%C3%BCstenschiffs,_Zeichnung.jpg Proposed minefield crossing vehicle 1944-1945: the Krupp Räumer S. One prototype built, never used in action, captured 1945.

petermorwood:

my-ear-trumpet:

messytimetravel:

Proposed desert crossing vehicle
1931-1932

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13577,_Entwurf_eines_W%C3%BCstenschiffs,_Zeichnung.jpg

Proposed minefield crossing vehicle 1944-1945: the Krupp Räumer S. One prototype built, never used in action, captured 1945.

alfredlordtennisanyone:

Modes of Travel [Part 1]

Some took trains, others steamships. Still others found comfort lounging around the grounds of their luxury hotels. Whatever the case, in a world that was increasingly moving towards the speed of light, travelers were looking for an escape from the tired monotony of stationary life.

Jupp Wiertz. Germany. 1920s from Lord K.

Jupp Wiertz. Germany. 1920s from Lord K.

(Source: flickr.com)

alittleouttolunch:

Tim Huhn

http://dieselpunksencyclopedia.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/our-gallery-the-vision-of-tim-huhn/

velvetcyberpunk: Integrity by Tim Huhn. I am pretty sure Mr. Huhn inspired the art that is seen around Rapture in BioShock. I love it!

velvetcyberpunk:

Integrity by Tim Huhn.

I am pretty sure Mr. Huhn inspired the art that is seen around Rapture in BioShock. I love it!

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie: In a scene that could have been pulled straight from H. G. Wells’ classic War in the Air, a mighty air and sea battle between German and British forces is imagined in this fanciful 1915 Japanese lithograph. Japan, which had almost no experience with military aviation, had joined The Great War on the side of the Allies in August of 1914.  Its citizens, curious about events in the West, avidly purchased lithographs like this because news photographs were difficult to obtain and to reproduce. (via Knights of the Air: WWI as envisioned by the Japanese (circa 1915) - Dieselpunks)

gentlemanlosergentlemanjunkie:

In a scene that could have been pulled straight from H. G. Wells’ classic War in the Air, a mighty air and sea battle between German and British forces is imagined in this fanciful 1915 Japanese lithograph.

Japan, which had almost no experience with military aviation, had joined The Great War on the side of the Allies in August of 1914.  Its citizens, curious about events in the West, avidly purchased lithographs like this because news photographs were difficult to obtain and to reproduce.

(via Knights of the Air: WWI as envisioned by the Japanese (circa 1915) - Dieselpunks)

steampunktendencies:

Courtesy of Darkknot

theeyeofelegance: Why is this here? Because I love it, and I hope you do too! :) Aviator high waisted skirt - olive green by blackmirrordesign

theeyeofelegance:

Why is this here? Because I love it, and I hope you do too! :)

Aviator high waisted skirt - olive green by blackmirrordesign

turner-d-century: The Adventures of the 19XX. Somewhere in the 20th century… not long after the end of the Great War, those who were capable of hearing it, received a revelation… another Great War was coming. This coming war would push the limits of technology, split the atom to create the power of a small star, and bring together forces more evil than the world has ever known. That this war would happen was man’s fatal destiny, but the outcome of the war and the details of it were not as clear. A weak League of Nations banded together to form a group. A group capable of doing what those countries could not. A group of adventurers, explorers, and scientists from every allied country to search the globe and fight a battle far from the public eye. This group is The 19XX, all the public has been told is that they are fighting for all of the good in humanity to survive the nineteen hundreds and beyond. Their mission is to track down every powerful relic, every modern and undiscovered weapon, and every magic incantation ever uttered on the earth’s crust, because the forces of evil responsible for the next Great War would be searching for the very same thing. Nothing in the realm of the tangible or intangible is off limits when the fate of the entire world is at stake

turner-d-century:

The Adventures of the 19XX.

Somewhere in the 20th century… not long after the end of the Great War, those who were capable of hearing it, received a revelation… another Great War was coming. This coming war would push the limits of technology, split the atom to create the power of a small star, and bring together forces more evil than the world has ever known. That this war would happen was man’s fatal destiny, but the outcome of the war and the details of it were not as clear. A weak League of Nations banded together to form a group. A group capable of doing what those countries could not. A group of adventurers, explorers, and scientists from every allied country to search the globe and fight a battle far from the public eye. This group is The 19XX, all the public has been told is that they are fighting for all of the good in humanity to survive the nineteen hundreds and beyond.

Their mission is to track down every powerful relic, every modern and undiscovered weapon, and every magic incantation ever uttered on the earth’s crust, because the forces of evil responsible for the next Great War would be searching for the very same thing. Nothing in the realm of the tangible or intangible is off limits when the fate of the entire world is at stake