Steampunk... interesting things that are basically victorian era ingenuity, made of copper, brass, and powered by steam... or look like they are. Regardless of definition, cool stuff from the 1850's -1910's

Dirigibles (hard frame blimps) seem to get a special pass for their design or uniqueness

found on http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/

More cool vehicles from Steampunkvehicles.tumblr

 1910, and I know I've posted about it years ago, but can't find the info,.... it's a custom coachbuilt body over a Rolls chassis if I recall correctly, funky looking.

 1918 policeman in San Diego

this 1929 BMW R11 was available with the Royal sidecar

 looking like a tank, built over a Tucker sno cat ... my guess is for "burning man"

 and lastly two cars built to look like trains. They were great advertising vehicles, mostly used by movie companies to get an audience for the theaters, but the above is advertising tires and the below is lettered with American Legion, Miami Beach to Boston... maybe to sell war bonds?

 Lots of great cars, trucks, trains and bikes at http://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/

Vintage 1909 movie props from "The Airship Destroyer" ... steampunk all the way

 Airship destoryer in the above image, it's used as a unmanned drone to blow up blimps/airships... the petal propeller and dragonfly wings are comical

 these are both images of the front of this "Armored" horseless carriage

these images are from the 1909 movie "The Airship Destroyer" found on Richards blog http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011/05/airship-destroyer-1909.html and you can watch the short movie on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAWWZ2rUGk&feature=player_embedded

Richard has just started blogging, and doesn't yet have an email I can find on his profile or his blog, so I hope he adds one so I can contact him