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Author Willeford, Thomas.

Title Steampunk gear, gadgets, and gizmos : a maker's guide to creating modern artifacts / Thomas Willeford.

Publication Info. New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  OVR 745.5 W    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  745.5 WIL    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Handicraft.
Models and modelmaking.
Implements, utensils, etc.
Technology in art -- History -- 19th century.
Steampunk culture.
ISBN 9780071762366 alkaline paper
0071762361 alkaline paper
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