Items matching steampunk (results page 1)

Railway Trains in SpaceThe Book of Knowledge Volume 1 (1911)

Ten passenger trains, each with five carriages pulled by a steam locomotive, are heading for the sun, the moon, the nearest star, and for each of the other planets in this steam-punk Vctorian illustra [...]

Keywords: humour, space, trains, railways, steam engines, steampunk, retro, vintage, planets, solar system, diagrams, infographics, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-13

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Steampunk flying cogAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

A cog with feathered wings, a steam-whistle, perhaps a regulator knob, and another unidentifiable part, flies through the clouds.

Keywords: steampunk, victoriana, wings, machinery, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-29

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Plate XIX, fig. 3.—Crane Mechanism.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

Another very good crane is made in the following manner. AA (fig. 3.) is a great wheel turned by men walking within it at H. On the part C, of its axle BC, the great rope D is wound as the wheel tu [...]

Keywords: diagrams, machinery, cogs, wheels, steampunk, cranes, lifting equipment, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-11-16

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Oiling the Wheels.Home Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

A bearded man stands next to a machine made from giant cogs and wheels; he is oiling an axle. In the background behind him is a counter where a person stands facing away from us and towards a man on t [...]

Keywords: machinery, people, interiors, wheels, cogs, mysterious mechanisms, steampunk, victorian costumes, men, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-02

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Le Tunnel du Saint-Gotthard.—Machine à perforer, mue par l’air compriméLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A man stands facing left, apparently calm, wearing overcoat and wide-brimmed hat, in an underground tunnel; behind him is a large metal cylindrical tank, horizontal, fitted with railway wheels; to th [...]

Keywords: machinery, steampunk, railways, people, wheels, men, engines, tunnels, excavation, digging, hats, greyscale

Places shown: Gotthard Tunnel; Broager; Uri; Switzerland

Added: 2020-10-31

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Flying saucer over the glittering city of the North PoleCassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

In this 1880s science fiction story the protagonists are visiting the North Pole of Venus in their flying saucer or spaceship. We poised our car over the glittering domes and towers of the great city [...]

Keywords: cities, winter, ice, cold, glittering, flying saucers, flying cars, space ships, steampunk, illustrations for children, transport, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-21

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Thomson’s Road-Steamer and Coal-WaggonsIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The engraving shows a man driving a three-wheeled steam-powered traction engine named Enterprise; the traction engine has broad wheels with lots of rectangular metal plates aound them; the text, below [...]

Keywords: steam engines, transport, steampunk, people, trains, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-14

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60.—Chinese Capstan.Elementary Mechanics, Including Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. Revised edition (1882)

A pulley is often used in conjunction with a capstan, the rope passing round a pulley attached to the weight, and the mechanical advantage of the capstan is thereby doubled. Moreover, the free end of [...]

Keywords: machinery, diagrams, wheels, pulleys, steampunk, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-02

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