Steampunk Art & Gear (DRB Series)

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Some hot steam can be unutterably cool

... as well as some pipes, chrome, brass, gears and daughters of intrepid inventors. The grandiose, audacious visions stemming from Victorian style and Age of Scientific Wonders are often translated into very real modern gadgets and some wicked art. As long as this trend continues, we will be serving this steamy dish of clockwork goodness. Bon Appetit!

This page will be constantly updated (just like our Retro-Future page), as we add the material, so bookmark it, or mark its location on our homepage (inside "Features") and come back often. Let's start with unique steampunk-influenced art and deliciously obsolete gear:

ART & GEAR
(convert your garburator into a quantum computing input device)

	Amazing Automatons: Ancient Robots & Victorian Androids Industrious Little Clockwork Creatures!
	Hansen's Writing Ball & Other Unusual Typewriters Linear, Ball & Other Gorgeous Writing Machines
	Airships & Tentacles Exclusive Interview with artist Myke Amend
	Spectacular Steampunk Art Update Part 2 of this eye-popping, mind-boggling series
	Stunningly Intricate: Curta Mechanical Calculators Perfected in a concentration camp, as a gift to Hitler!
	You Know You Want This... Steampunk Gear Masterpieces plus interview with "Aaron Adding Machines"
	The New Motor, or The Steam-Powered Messiah A locomotive "god" from the Victorian times
	Robots: Art & Technology DRB Series: vintage robots in arts
	Streamlined Train Wonders of the Art Deco Era Trains and Railways Extravaganza
	Ugly, Belching Steam-Powered Tractors Mean (not lean) vintage machines
	Steam Buses & Trucks Loud, Obnoxious, Geek-Dreams on Wheels
	Cars with Propellers: an Illustrated Overview Essential steampunk transportation
	The Art of Grotesque Things that do more than just go "bump" in the night
	Steampunk Art Update Electrifying works from a gaslight era
	The Machine-Animals of Nantes Mechanical Elephants Forever
	Awesome Tank Modification This church means business

OTHER RETRO TECHNOLOGY
(some of these devices could be haunted... or even pregnant)

	Gorgeous Espresso Machines Is it brass you want, or maybe - chrome?
	Extraordinary Clocks and Watches "Time does not exist. Clocks exist."
	The Cutting Edge of Retro Tech They will be renaming HiFi to HyFy, starting April 1st
	A Round-up of Unusual Globes Measure Your Ego with a Globe
	Coolest Retro Devices Some were more portable than others
	Unusual Clock Mechanisms To simply tell the time is not the point
	Retro Technology: Cold War Phones Plus Dialup Computer Mods
	Vintage Miniature & Spy Cameras Collectible Cameras for Inconspicuous Photography
	Wooden Laptop & Other Steampunk'd Computers working model made out of wood
	Retro Technology Update An eclectic collection of steampunk devices
	Automated Music Instruments Unusual Instrument / Robot Hybrids

RELATED
(trying to strictly define "steampunk" is an ungrateful task)

	Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures Living independent from their creators?
	Dieselpunk: Love Affair with a Machine Surreal industrial art & culture
	Monsters on Display Night in the Museum: Weird Galleries and Fossils
	Animal Armor: A New Art Form? Pretty much invincible cats and mice
	Extraordinary Art from Metal Made from "found" and military scrap objects
	Cyberpunk Art Update Fashion with teeth, shoes with spikes

STEAMPUNK IN LITERATURE
(more reviews forthcoming)

	Alastair Reynolds' Epic Novels "Chasm City" with its steam tech
	Interview with Jeff VanderMeer Triumph of the bizarre... and the rise of squidpunk
	DRB Exclusive: Steampunk Art Store Opens! Featuring new awesome DRB painting