portrait-photo

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.

messytimetravel: Proposed desert crossing vehicle 1931-1932 Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13577,_Entwurf_eines_Wüstenschiffs,_Zeichnung.jpg

messytimetravel:

Proposed desert crossing vehicle
1931-1932

Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-13577,_Entwurf_eines_Wüstenschiffs,_Zeichnung.jpg

unseelieallure:

“An Affair Most Fowl”

Photographer, wardrobe & makeup : Kassandra Leigh
Model & writer: Babs Who Takes Pictures

unseelieallure:

“An Affair Most Fowl”

Photographer, wardrobe & makeup : Kassandra Leigh
Model & writer: Babs Who Takes Pictures

steampunkery: blue steampunkby ~marina-mew

steampunkery:

blue steampunk
by ~marina-mew

obsidian-sphere: The Electric Man or Frank Reade, Jr, in Australia

obsidian-sphere:

The Electric Man or Frank Reade, Jr, in Australia

deco0400: Hornsby Chain Track Tractor This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.

deco0400:

Hornsby Chain Track Tractor

This steam-powered tractor has been in Canada since it was shipped as a new machine from England in 1910. Built by R. Hornsby & Sons of Grantham England, the crawler track principle was patented in 1904. The following year, the device known as a “chain track” was fitted to a Hornsby oil tractor built in 1896. Several other Hornsby oil powered tractors were completed with crawler tracks, but despite energetic promotion, including the first film ever made for commercial purposes (1908), and demonstrations for high-ranking military personnel, the idea did not catch on. This machine was originally sold to the Northern Light Power & Coal Company for hauling coal to Klondike gold fields in the Yukon. After this lone sale, the Hornsby company became disillusioned and sold the patent rights of the “chain track” to the Holt Manufacturing Company in 1914. Holt later combined with Best to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. This was the only steam powered machine built and is the only steam crawler existing today.

I hate when people post interesting images without any explanation of what we are looking at. After two minutes of googling I found that the Images are of the Meigs Elevated Railway taken from Scientific American (July 10, 1886)

(Source: cloudcircus)

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dantelian:

Cosplay by me
Photos by Scarlet Decorator

American McGee’s Alice cosplay

http://dantelian.deviantart.com/

sepiachord: IBM: Analytics points to steampunk aesthetic pervading pop culture in 2013  http://www.sepiachord.com/index/?p=5484

sepiachord:

IBM: Analytics points to steampunk aesthetic pervading pop culture in 2013  http://www.sepiachord.com/index/?p=5484

(via timsbrannan)