steampunk

Just seen this repaint of a Type 45 on the Triang Minic Ships Facebook site based on the Victorian Royal Navy...

Primarily intended for MPs on checkpoint or traffic control duty, or so I gather.

In other words, steampunk in the space age. ;D ORIGINAL CAPTION: AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers. A JPL team is studying how this kind of rover could explore extreme environments, like the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...

I have read that the Germans experimented with steam power for their Panzers in ww2. I expect that the multi-fuel nature of this technology was attactive to the Germans when they started to run out of petrol. Steam engines can produce high torque at low speeds, an attactive feature for a tank...

You thought the Besler steam-engine biplane of 1933 (see next post) was wacky? Meet the 1954 Boundary Layer Control (BLC) aircraft project with FOUR steam engines!! Source: A STEAM POWERPLANT FOR AN AIRPLANE EQUIPPED WITH BOUNDARY-LAYER CONTROL (University of Wichita, September 1954) [NOTE...