steampunk

IBM Antique Attic

IBM's website has photos and information about their Antique Attic exhibit, showcasing their collection of mechanical calculating devices.

"The nearly 400-year history of mechanized calculation was created by men and women with varying and diverse talents, temperaments, backgrounds and education, working in such fields as mathematics, the sciences, government, business and commerce. It is a history not just of singular inspiration and genius but also the continuing, collective discovery of new materials, skills, technologies and techniques to implement and enhance the plans and dreams of individual inventors and scientists."

Above, a Babbage Analytical Engine

Hemlock

Eccentric Genius: Antiques from a Parallel Universe

The P'gaackan Discombobulator

Kaden Harris makes steampunk sculptures, or at least steampunk-like sculptures. According to him, he makes "'machina arcana'- arcane machines" - "antiques from a parallel universe, Da Vinci, Cleese and Neutron still spend every Tuesday night playing poker with Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian era 'gentleman inventor' still toils diligently in his potting shed laboratory."

Another definition he uses is "randomly selecting medieval, industrial age and art deco influences and gamely struggling to make them all coexist in a post-millennial world. Out of scrap metal. And hardwood."

Anyway, it's cool.

A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks

Awesome

A - Appendages
B - Bioengineering
C - Caffeine
D - Dirigible
E - Experiment
F - Freeze ray
G - Goggles
H - Henchmen
I - Invention
J - Jargon
K - Potassium
L - Laser
M - Maniacal
N - Nanotechnology
O - Organs
P - Peasants (with Pitchforks)
Q - Quantum physics
R - Robot
S - Self-experimentation
T - Tentacles
U - Underground Lair
V - Virus
W - Wrench
X - X-Ray
Y - You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow
Z - Zombies

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