Tag Archives: steam-powered

January 10, 2014 · 1:20 pm

1879 Darby Steam-Digger

c. 1879 The Darby steam-digger

“Image with consent of the descendants of Robert Hasler.

“The Darby Steam-Digger, a light traction engine, was invented circa 1879 by farmer Thomas Darby and built at Lodge Farm Pleshey, near Chelmsford in Essex, England. Robert Hasler, seen driving the Digger, helped to build this first prototype.

“In effect the machine was an early tractor designed mainly for ploughing, and could accomplish 1-acre (4,000 m2) an hour (1 m²/s) to a maximum depth of 14 inches (360 mm). This first digger was constructed on pedestrian principles and had six “feet” and really did walk over the fields. Unfortunately it jumped too much to be really successful. The digger was later modified to have wheels in place of the legs.”

Filed under Humor and Observations

Tagged as 1800s, 1879 Darby Steam-Digger, age of steam, Chelmsford in Essex, england, history, inventions, Lodge Farm Pleshey, Robert Hasler, steam-powered, steampunk, victorian

April 25, 2013 · 2:49 pm

Steampunk Style

Steampunk is sci-fi mixed with the 1830-1900 period, the Age of Steam. It often supposed advanced technology based on steam power rather than modern oil and electrical power. Two of my novels, The Travelers’ Club and The Ghost Ship. and The Traveler’s Club – Fire and Ash, are both steampunk adventures. I post steampunk vehicles separately, as I do steampunk animals, steampunk insects, guitars, and steampunk people. You can find all my steampunk related posts by typing “steampunk” into the search block on my home page. This then, is the catch-all representation of some steampunk style. Enjoy!

: Booked carved to steampunk art

: Actual Victorian paid mourners

: Actual Pony Express Ad. Oddly, the Pony Express lasted less than a year.

: Historic weapon of the period

: First powered harpoon

: President Lincoln’s Hearse

: Outside the White House, 1882

: Personal Airship

: Fancy leggings

: The steampunk headgear

: Anti-werewolf and anti-vampire gun

: Steam desk top

: Loveseat

: Gun

: Computer station

: Steampowered quills

: Cthulhu Watch

: Steam-powered typewriter

: Steampunk office

: Steam-powered hand

: Personal conveyance

: Steampunk belly button moustache piercing

: I-pad docking

: Unfortunately, that is me, at a steampunk event. I have a face for radio

: Travel by air, land or sea

: Steam clock

: Steam phone

: Steam-powered computer

: Steampunk flash drive

: Steampunk PC

: Steampunk smartphone

: Steampunk Laboratory

: 1878-ebenhard-kosmos-brenner-optical-raygun-prototype.

: Steampunk light switch

: Motorized car/aeroplane

: 1895 Paris derailment, depicted in Hugo

Filed under Humor and Observations, Writing

Tagged as michael bradley, steam-powered, steampunk, steampunk pics, steampunk pictures, steampunk style, the travelers' club - Fire and Ash, The Travelers' Club and The Ghost Ship, the travelers' club series