Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts

Contains Directions For Eight Steampunk Projects, With A Definition Of Steampunk, A List Of Tools Needed, And Advice On How And Where To Scavenge For Parts. Part The First: Full Steam Ahead. What Is Steampunk? -- Tools Of The Modern Mad Scientist -- The Art And Philosophy Of Scavenging -- Gear Mining -- Or, How To Dissect A Cuckoo. Part The Second. Getting Steamed: Projects For Makers, Modders, And Assemblagers. Aetheric Ray Deflector Solid Brass Goggles -- Calibrated Indicator Gauges -- Professor Grimmelore's Ferromagnetic Self-scribing Automated Encyclopedia (or, The Steampunk Book Drive) -- Dr. Visbaun's High Voltage Electro-static Hand Cannon (pr, The Lamp Gun) -- Tesla-pod Chrono-static Insulating Field Generator (or, The Mobile Device Enclosure) -- Altitude Mask With Integrated Respiratory Augmentation As Issued To H.m. Royal Aeronautical Corps -- Voortman's Armoured Pith Helmet, From London's Finest Purveyor Of Defensive And Deflective Haberdashery -- Professor Grimmelore's Mark I Superior Replacement Arm With Integrated Gatling Gun Attachment. Part The Third. Hastily Scribbled Laboratory Notes. This Way Lies Madness -- Dramatis Personae -- For The Brilliant But Mathematically Challenged Mad Scientist -- Final Thoughts -- Patterns From Chapter 5. Thomas Willeford. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-208) And Index.