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Luke"
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike
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Fonts wanted
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Victorian Space Travel
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What happened to International Steampunk City
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Luke replied to Zebulon Vitruvius Pike's discussion Victorian Space Travel"Well, with the benefit of hindsight, wouldn't it have been obvious to the discoverers of luminous ether? From memory aether was an observation of an unknown material whose alleged spectra turned out being caused by redshift.
Given newtons laws…"
Luke replied to Zebulon Vitruvius Pike's discussion Victorian Space Travel"The pencil also can be erased, which explains why it was so popular with soviet record keepers. ;) lets not use a 50c example to make million dollar generalizations. Don't forget that when one develops a technology for the first time it will be…"
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Steampunk World's Fair: Convention Report
Posted on May 22, 2012 at 5:44pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
I had not planned on attending the Steampunk World's Fair. Not for any specific or single reason except that I had a lot of conventions on my list to go to and felt I needed to prune that back a bit so that I didn't spend all of my money (new car payment that I didn't have last year) and the Fair was the one that was to have been cut. Except that Euphorbia wanted to go. She has something of…
Continue Steampunk Empire Symposium: Convention Report
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 11:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
As with every convention, I wanted to get going to the Steampunk Empire Symposium in Cincinnati as early as I could. But, also as with most conventions, I was constrained by the schedules of others. In this case, my daughter wanted to go to the con as well but had to work half a shift so I couldn’t leave Pittsburgh until 11:30. Even so, we made excellent time and arrived well in time to unpack the car and get changed to attend the first item…
Continue Aetheric Elements
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 8:00am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Beginning in 1829, Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner started plotting out trends in the properties of elements. He noted that some elements had similar properties with other elements in groups of three. English chemist John Alexander Reina Newlands saw a repetitive pattern and in 1869 published his law of octaves which states that "any given element will exhibit analogues behaviour to the eighth element following it in the table." Dmitri Mendeleev published his periodic table in the same year and…
Continue The Airship Hysteria of 1896-1897: An Article Review
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 6:00am 2 Comments 1 Like
While researching the Great Airship Flap of 1897, I came across word of an article in the Winter 1990 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. It was, however, just a mention of the article. The article itself wasn't online and the back issue had been long out of print. Finally, though, a copy showed up on Amazon and I now have a chance to see what someone other than a UFOlogist thinks on the subject.
It doesn't start off well. The author, Robert Bartholomew, begins by talking about…
The Pirates of Penzance: Field Trip Report
Posted on March 11, 2012 at 8:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
At the end of last season when the Pittsburgh Savoyards announced that the spring performance would be "The Pirates of Penzance", I knew it would be a good opportunity for the Steel City Steam Society to go out, see, and be seen. It's the opera, for crying out loud! A prime chance for waistcoats and corsetry, top hats and bustles. When I posted the event there was a…
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- At 10:44am on May 3, 2012,
AirMarshal Harlan Cornelias Cain said… Good day to you good sir. I, as well, hail from Pittsburgh and would certainly like to organize a network of those who share our Steam interests. I am reaching out to all the members of our area in the hopes of organizing. If you are interested, please enlist and sign the airship's articles.Crewe of the LoyalCoin
- At 10:18pm on December 14, 2011, deedeegt gave Zebulon Vitruvius Pike a gift…
- At 6:19pm on June 17, 2011,
Nim Derringer said… good day, fellow steamyinzer. it is lovely to see you about. i hope to have the pleasure of visiting with you and your loverly wife at another event in the near future.
cheers,
~nim
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