Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts
Autor Thomas Willeforden Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 2011
Unleash Your Inner Mechanical Mastermind
Welcome to the wondrous world of Thomas Willeford, aka Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, in which he shares his closely guarded secrets of Steampunkery. Filled with do-it-yourself projects, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts shows you how to build exquisite, ingenious contraptions on a budget.Learn from Lord Featherstone as he distills his wealth of hard-learned skills, describes how to use the readily available tools of the modern mad scientist, and expounds on the art and philosophy of scavenging unique components and raw materials. The perfect companion for the hobbyist and advanced machinist alike, this inventive volume will guide you through the creation of your very own infernal devices.
Get steamed with these provocative projects:
- Aetheric ray deflector solid brass goggles
- Calibrated indicator gauges
- Ferromagnetic self-scribing automated encyclopedia (or, the Steampunk book drive)
- High voltage electro-static cannon (or, the lamp gun)
- Tesla-pod chrono-static insulating field generator (or, the mobile device enclosure)
- Altitude mask with integrated respiratory augmentation
- Armoured pith helmet
- Mark I superior replacement arm with integrated Gatling gun attachment
Make Great Stuff!
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780071762366
ISBN-10: 0071762361
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 216 x 277 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția McGraw Hill TAB
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0071762361
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 216 x 277 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: McGraw Hill Education
Colecția McGraw Hill TAB
Locul publicării:United States
Cuprins
Foreword – By Kaja Foglio with illustrations by Phil Foglio
Introduction
Part the First: Full Steam Ahead
Chapter 1: What Is Steampunk?
Chapter 2: Tools of the Modern Mad Scientist
Chapter 3: The Art and Ph9losophy of Scavenging
Chapter 4: Gear Mining--Or, How to Dissect a Cuckoo
Part the Second: Getting Steamed: Projects for Makers, Modders, and Assemblagers
Chapter 5: Aetheric Ray Deflector Solid Brass Goggles
Chapter 6: Calibrated Indicator Gauges
Chapter 7: Professor Grimmelore's Ferromagnetic Self-Scribing Automated Encyclopedia (or, The Steampunk Book Drive
Chapter 8: Dr. Visbaun’s High Voltage Electro-Static Hand Cannon
Chapter 9: Tesla-pod Chrono-Static Insulating Field Generator (or, The Mobile Device Enclosure)
Chapter 10: Altitude Mask with Integrated Respiratory Augmentation, as Issued to H.M. Royal Aeronautical Corps
Chapter 11: Voortman's Armored Pith Helmet, from London's Finest Purveyor of Defensive and Deflective Haberdashery
Chapter 12: Professor Grimmelore's Mark I Superior Replacement Arm with Integrated Gatling Attachment
Part the Third: Hastily Scribbled Laboratory Notes
Appendix A: This Way Lies Madness
Appendix B: Dramatis Personae
Final Thoughts
Patterns from Chapter 5
Index
Introduction
Part the First: Full Steam Ahead
Chapter 1: What Is Steampunk?
Chapter 2: Tools of the Modern Mad Scientist
Chapter 3: The Art and Ph9losophy of Scavenging
Chapter 4: Gear Mining--Or, How to Dissect a Cuckoo
Part the Second: Getting Steamed: Projects for Makers, Modders, and Assemblagers
Chapter 5: Aetheric Ray Deflector Solid Brass Goggles
Chapter 6: Calibrated Indicator Gauges
Chapter 7: Professor Grimmelore's Ferromagnetic Self-Scribing Automated Encyclopedia (or, The Steampunk Book Drive
Chapter 8: Dr. Visbaun’s High Voltage Electro-Static Hand Cannon
Chapter 9: Tesla-pod Chrono-Static Insulating Field Generator (or, The Mobile Device Enclosure)
Chapter 10: Altitude Mask with Integrated Respiratory Augmentation, as Issued to H.M. Royal Aeronautical Corps
Chapter 11: Voortman's Armored Pith Helmet, from London's Finest Purveyor of Defensive and Deflective Haberdashery
Chapter 12: Professor Grimmelore's Mark I Superior Replacement Arm with Integrated Gatling Attachment
Part the Third: Hastily Scribbled Laboratory Notes
Appendix A: This Way Lies Madness
Appendix B: Dramatis Personae
Final Thoughts
Patterns from Chapter 5
Index