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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.

questionableadvice: ~ The Pacific Monthly, July - January 1909“There can be no question that the HOWARD is the watch for the aviator.” Little known problems facing an aviator.

questionableadvice:

~ The Pacific Monthly, July - January 1909

“There can be no question that the HOWARD is the watch for the aviator.”

Little known problems facing an aviator.

reasonotheneed: The simple watch and spotted cravat on Edward Fox. The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

reasonotheneed:

The simple watch and spotted cravat on Edward Fox.

The Day Of The Jackal (1973)

modernfoppery: slavin: via Greenfield: “This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end. The technology – a curious cross between the space age and the stone age – consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ‘scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking.” (via 314 - Watch the Road: World’s Earliest SatNav | Strange Maps | Big Think) So cool. Edwardian genius.

modernfoppery:

slavin:

via Greenfield:

“This fantastic contraption, called the ‘Routefinder’, showed 1920s drivers in the UK the roads they were travelling down, gave them the mileage covered and told them to stop when they came at journey’s end.

The technology – a curious cross between the space age and the stone age – consisted of a little map scroll inside a watch, to be ‘scrolled’ (hence the word) as the driver moved along on the map. A multitude of scrolls could be fitted in the watch to suit the particular trip the driver fancied taking.”

(via 314 - Watch the Road: World’s Earliest SatNav | Strange Maps | Big Think)

So cool.

Edwardian genius.

djgagnon: #time #history Anonymous, Swiss-made Watch, c 1850 Probably mid-nineteenth century. Lever escapement, two-arm uncut bimetallic balance. Going barrel. Enamel dial, blued steel hands and sweep centre seconds hand. Chinese numerals with inner 24-hour chapter ring with European roman numerals. Silver case. from: Watches; Clutton and Daniels; 1965; Viking Press, New York.

djgagnon:

#time #history

Anonymous, Swiss-made Watch, c 1850

Probably mid-nineteenth century. Lever escapement, two-arm uncut bimetallic balance. Going barrel. Enamel dial, blued steel hands and sweep centre seconds hand. Chinese numerals with inner 24-hour chapter ring with European roman numerals. Silver case.

from: Watches; Clutton and Daniels; 1965; Viking Press, New York.

theforgottenfiles: Eugène Delacroix by Félix Nadar, 1850s

theforgottenfiles:

Eugène Delacroix by Félix Nadar, 1850s

(via theforgottenfiles-deactivated20)

petitemuse: steampunklove: Steampunk Watch somehow telling time would be 10x more interesting This might be a bit too cumbersome for my taste.

petitemuse:

steampunklove:

Steampunk Watch

somehow telling time would be 10x more interesting

This might be a bit too cumbersome for my taste.

(Source: gizmowatch.com, via llilim)