John Condell’s Drawing of an Artificial Arm, 07/11/1865
From the series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911, from the Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
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John Condell’s Drawing of an Artificial Arm, 07/11/1865
From the series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911, from the Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Automaton clockwork caterpillar, known as the “Ethiopian Caterpillar," made by Swiss watchmaker Henri Maillardet ca. 1820 for sale to aristocratic Chinese buyers. The insect is made from gold, enamel, precious jewels, and pearls, and is driven by a pair of gilt-metal knurled wheels.
Scroll through article for a video of the clockwork bug in (weird) action.
Source: Daily Mail
USS Akron in Flight
The ill-fated airship USS Akron (ZRS-4) was launched on August 8, 1931. Designed as a potential flying aircraft carrier, this reel of stock Navy footage includes scenes of the Akron launching and retrieving its complement of Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk “parasite fighters.”
‘A gold ring, circa 1820, the decorative scalloped shank terminating in an oval head set with an array of gemstones. The stones symbolise the qualities of the different planets, reflecting the keen interest in astrology and planetary influences at the time, when certain gems were perceived to have positive astrological effects. The stones utilised are : sapphire - Saturn, rock crystal - Venus, agate - Mars, quartz cat’s eye - spiritualism and intuition, spinel - Saturn, brown zircon - Jupiter, amethyst - Saturn, green zircon - Mercury, garnet - North Node, chrysoberyl - spiritualism and intuition, pearl - moon, ruby - sun.The ring is size L [US 5 and 1/2] and can be sized, and the gem-set head measures 3/4 of an inch by 1/2 an inch. A fascinating Georgian planetary ring.’
All I want in the world is to have a street legal party elephant made of wood by a steampunk genius....
A 47 passenger carrying mechanical elephant. By Machines of the Isle of Nantes
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Did I mention Perfect Creature is a steampunk movie? With vampires?
1. The City
2. A Bullet - not kidding.
3. A TV
4. A Blimp
5. A steam powered car complete with internal boiler stuck in traffic with a horse drawn carriage.
6. Your Flu Shot.
The Perfect Creature Shooting Script Writers: Glenn Standring Rewrites: Unknown or none. The copy I have is a PDF format. May 14th 2004 Shooting Script. @ Google Docs
When the Wright Brothers did their thing in 1903, it apparently put the idea in people's heads that one day we'd all be flying, everywhere, for everything... even to our jobs. We've had this fantasy pop up time and time again—including the most popular pop culture reference of all, in The Jetsons—but it has yet to really happen on a broad scale, and for a long period of time. Sure, we had New York Airways, which helped some commuters skip traffic into the city, but that ended in the 1970s after too many people died and the company shut down operations. But let's go back further in time, to 1919, when this airplane business was new, and the ideas were even more wild.
Back then, it seemed pretty certain that flying to work would be Our Future, the only question was, how would the city accommodate these personal airplanes? Specifically, where would they land? In a June 1919 issue of Popular Science, writer Carl Dienstbach laid out all possible pitfalls of bringing aircrafts to cities, noting, "clearly, city streets, flanked by high cliffs of architecture, lend themselves about as well for airplane landing and starting as they do for ice-boating.” One solution to this problem: "a platform in the form of a circular, high-banked track—a track that would be constructed of light but strong iron gratings, so that sun and air would still find their way to the streets below.”