5 years before the book release of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, French astronomer and author Nicolas Camille Flammarion had published his La Fin du Monde (or 'The End of the World') novel in 1893. The work was reproduced into many languages and even adapted to a film in 1931. The images…
There are motorcycles, and there are 'motorcycles'. The above pictured contraption surely belongs to the boisterous second category, and it was built by Revatu Customs. Christened as the Black Pearl, the motorcycle flaunts its fully functioning steam engine, with the rear wheel driven by a big crankshaft mechanism. In essence, the robust bike is not…
A Toronto, Canada resident, Dan Tanenbaum has been collecting parts of vintage watches for quite some time now. It was through this hobby of accruing vintage timepieces that Dan came upon his true passion: crafting miniature motorcycles from old watch parts. Since 2010, Dan has sculpted several such Steampunk-inspired pieces, and has indeed become quite…
Mary Shelley is the author of the famous Gothic novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, while Thomas Edison is known for inventing the incandescent light bulb in the late 1870s. What do these apparently disparate pieces of information have in common? Well, think! (more…)