History Main / SteamPunk

* The 1970s Czechoslovak detective comedy ''Film/AdeleHasn'tHadHerDinnerYet'' features a lot of steampunky gadgets and esthetics both on the side of the protagonists and the bad guys, given that it's an AffectionateParody of turn-of-the-century pulp novels and penny dreadfuls.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Christmas special episode "The Next Doctor" (set in 1851) had elements of this, including a [[HumongousMecha hundred-foot high]] steampunk Cyber-King.

* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': The Georgia Federation has reverted to this full-stop, converting buses and agricultural machinery to steam power in response to the loss of electricity. Miles notes that their standard of living is substantially higher than that of the Monroe Republic at least partly as a result.

* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': In one episode, Col. Sheppard and Dr. [=McKay=] had been playing an {{RTS}} game they had found on the station, where they each built up and controlled neighboring countries. At least, they ''thought'' it was a game, until they found a planet with countries built up exactly like they had specified. Dr. [=McKay=]'s country was fully steampunk, with leather and brass, goggles, steam power and dirigibles.

* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': In one episode, Abby goes to a "steampunk bar." But the steampunks are really just {{goth}}s wearing brown, they all act rude [[TheQuincyPunk like punks are expected to act]] and their vocabulary is laced with words borrowed from ''HarryPotter''.

* Fans of Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights nerdgasmed when they discovered that one of the scarezones in 2010 was Saws n' Steam; fissures opening in the ground cause the oceans to dry up, forcing the homicidal citizens of New Yorkshire to take up steam-powered chainsaws and carve up passerby to extract the water from their bodies. The zone notably features a MASSIVE amount of fog in a small alley, as well as chainsaw-wielding maniacs with goggles and leather on each end and a stage with a steampunk police officer monologuing about how they plan on rebuilding their city; one section of the stage has a tank full of body parts that occasionally fires streams of water at the crowd.

* Alton Towers, a popular English theme park, has lots of steampunk influences, mainly focussing on the theme of Victorian travel and discovery. One in-park hotel is Steampunk themed, complete with a giant airship and pith-hated gent in the lobby, and one of the park monorails is painted to appear as a locomotive carriage, full of exotic contraptions and the like.
* Fans of Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights nerdgasmed when they discovered that one of the scarezones in 2010 was Saws n' Steam; fissures opening in the ground cause the oceans to dry up, forcing the homicidal citizens of New Yorkshire to take up steam-powered chainsaws and carve up passerby to extract the water from their bodies. The zone notably features a MASSIVE amount of fog in a small alley, as well as chainsaw-wielding maniacs with goggles and leather on each end and a stage with a steampunk police officer monologuing about how they plan on rebuilding their city; one section of the stage has a tank full of body parts that ocasionally fires streams of water at the crowd.

!!Examples:

* The villain Mechanicles' shtick in the ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' TV show. Improbable-to-impossible mechanical creations of all shapes and sizes. However, they were usually ClockPunk rather than steam-based.

There is also a Steampunk genre of music (AbneyPark, SteamPoweredGiraffe, UnextraordinaryGentlemen and VernianProcess being examples from this wiki of what are considered Steampunk bands), an element of cosplay, and the intersection with the Maker movement as described above (with designers such as Jake von Slatt receiving some mainstream attention). The [[{{Wikipedia}} Other Wiki]] also has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk article]] about Steampunk as well.

There is also a Steampunk genre of music, (The Unextraordinary Gentlemen, and Vernian Process being two examples of what are considered Steampunk bands) an element of cosplay, and the intersection with the Maker movement as described above, which is the product of Jake von Slatt, among others. The [[{{Wikipedia}} Other Wiki]] also has an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk article]] about Steampunk as well.

There is also a Steampunk genre of music, (The Unextraordinary Gentlemen, and Vernian Process being two examples of what are considered Steampunk bands) an element of cosplay, and the intersection with the Maker movement as described above, which is the product of Jake von Slatt, among others.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will occasionally encounter some minor overlap with the post-Victorian Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin Zeppelin]] or rigid airship could also be considered one of the major icons of SteamPunk, despite (or perhaps because of) the disastrous safety record, and almost complete infeasibility of these vehicles in real life.

* The characters of ''QuestionableContent'' occasionally dress steampunk style.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will occasionally encounter some minor overlap with the post-Victorian Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin Zeppelin]] or rigid airship could also be considered one of the major icons of SteamPunk, despite (or perhaps because of) the almost complete infeasibility of these vehicles in real life.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will occasionally encounter some minor overlap with the post-Victorian Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography. The zeppelin or rigid airship could also be considered one of the major icons of SteamPunk, despite (or perhaps because of) the almost complete infeasibility of these vehicles in real life.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will occasionally encounter some minor overlap with the post-Victorian Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography.

However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end. With this said, the recent development of a number of designs of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove rocket stoves]] beginning in the 1980s, have demonstrated that a highly fuel efficient steam boiler may in fact not be quite so impractical after all, at least on a small scale. On this point, it is also worth mentioning that the average contemporary power station still runs primarily on large coal-fired steam turbines.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will occasionally encounter some overlap with the Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps. You will also occasionally encounter some overlap with the Art Deco movement as well, particularly in terms of typography.

The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'' Expect to also see a strong, visible Irish influence, in terms of such features as stained wood, brass, and American frontier-style blown glass oil lamps.

Elements of steampunk that are set in the American frontier are usually referred to as "CattlePunk". Some writers and fans refer to the "shiny happy" version as "Victorian Fantasy", "GaslampFantasy" or "Victorian Futurism". Supernatural or paranormal tropes are more frequently included in this approach, in which case the ''Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' favours "Gaslight Romance". The more Victorian branch of Steampunk sometimes also incorporates vaguely [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]] elements, as shown [[http://thetentacleparadox.com/blog/?p=46 here]]. Another good example of the Lovecraftian/antedeluvian influence on Steampunk would be the design of the ''Nautilus'', Captain Nemo's submarine, in the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.''

However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end. With this said, the recent development of a number of designs of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove rocket stoves]] beginning in the 1980s, have demonstrated that a highly fuel efficient steam boiler may in fact not be quite so impractical after all, at least on a small scale.

However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end. With this said, however, the recent development of a number of designs of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_stove rocket stoves]] beginning in the 1980s, have demonstrated that a highly fuel efficient steam boiler may in fact not be quite so impractical after all, at least on a small scale.

However, any Victorian-era society which actually tried to create steampunk technology would soon find itself in stark trouble. Barring [[FunctionalMagic magical intervention]], the power requirements necessary to make real-world versions of steampunk devices (or at least Victorian-era versions of 20th century technology) would be enormous, and would soon exhaust all available supplies of coal and wood. [[MohsScaleofScienceFictionHardness A real steampunk society]] would have to either immediately transform into a fully modern society (with oil, gas, and nuclear power driving devices made of modern, lighter materials) or would quickly become, in all probability, a technological dead end.

If instead of industrial era technology, the setting has pre-industrial technology, see ClockPunk, and if it includes internal combustion engines in place of steam, see DieselPunk, though there can be crossover between them if used purely asthetically. Many examples of SteamPunk mix in a few mutated monsters (probably in homage to Charles Darwin living roughly in the era depicted), thereby bordering upon BioPunk. If it assumes the truth of Victorian-era science, it may also become an example of AllTheoriesAreTrue. Visual media (and the real life Steampunk subculture) will never miss a chance to showcase some seriously AwesomeAnachronisticApparel, and for {{Fanservice}}'s sake a woman [[OfCorsetsSexy in a corset]] must be involved at some point.

Elements of steampunk that are set in the American frontier are usually referred to as "CattlePunk". Some writers and fans refer to the "shiny happy" version as "Victorian Fantasy", "GaslampFantasy" or "Victorian Futurism". Supernatural or paranormal tropes are more frequently included in this approach, in which case the ''Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' favours "Gaslight Romance".

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'' was borderline SteamPunk.
* Richard Dean Anderson's series ''Series/{{Legend}}'' had a single genius inventor character that created all manner of steampunk gear, but the world at large didn't have it.
* ''Series/TheSecretAdventuresOfJulesVerne'' is a Steam Punk series on the Sci-Fi Channel set in the [[VictorianLondon Victorian era]].
* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' (but less so than the movie). It had a steam powered tank, and at least two instances of steam powered robots being used by Dr. Loveless and other {{Mad Scientist}}s on the show.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Christmas special episode "The Next Doctor" (set in 1851) had elements of this, including a [[HumongousMecha hundred-foot high]] steampunk Cyber-King.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Captain Jack, captured by Torchwood agents in the 19th century, is interrogated by means of a Patent ElectricTorture Device, with the inventors' faces on the lid.
* ''{{Voyagers}}!'' had a cool steampunk vibe to it.
* SciFi Channel's 3-part 6-hour mini-series ''Series/TinMan'', a re-interpretation of ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', has a distinctly steampunk feel to at least the architecture and machinery, with just a tiny bit of cyberpunk thrown in for higher tech purposes. Appropriate to the setting. See "Literature." The Oz books were ''loaded'' with steam-tech.
* ''{{Warehouse 13}}'' plays with this, especially in terms of aesthetics, although it's a bit closer to DieselPunk in terms of the artifacts being handled (like the Farnsworth). The field agents, however, use fairly standard modern tech. Although when Helena is a field agent, she prefers her own SteamPunk equipment.
* ''{{Fringe}}'' episode "Brown Betty" has Steampunk and SchizoTech designs throughout the episode. Although the episode was more DieselPunk as a whole.
* In one episode of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', Abby goes to a "steampunk bar." But the steampunks are really just {{goth}}s wearing brown, they all act rude [[TheQuincyPunk like punks are expected to act]] and their vocabulary is laced with words borrowed from HarryPotter.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' had an episode set in a steampunk-themed club, and Castle went all-out getting into the part.
* In an episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Col. Sheppard and Dr. [=McKay=] had been playing an {{RTS}} game they had found on the station, where they each built up and controlled neighboring countries. At least, they ''thought'' it was a game, until they found a planet with countries built up exactly like they had specified. Dr. [=McKay=]'s country was fully steampunk, with leather and brass, goggles, steam power and dirigibles.

* [[Film/{{Tron}} Bruce Boxleitner]] is working on a new series called ''LanternCity'', which will take place in an entirely steampunk parallel world.

[[folder:Literature]]
* K.W. Jeter's ''Infernal Devices'' (not to be confused with the [[InfernalDevices Cassandra Clare novel]]), arguably the book that started it all. Contains mad scientists, space travel, time travel, clockwork robots, and fish-men!
* Chapter 13: Steam Cyborgs, from ''HellsChildren'', by Andrew Boland. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''Airborn'' and its sequels by Kenneth Oppel are a recent example of YA steampunk. Airships and ornithopters abound!
* ''Anti-Ice'' by Stephen Baxter. The discovery of AppliedPhlebotinum at the [[MysteriousAntarctica South Pole]] in 1870 causes the Victorian age to go steampunk. The book starts with the destruction of Sevastopol by a [[NukeEm single anti-ice shell]] (ending the Crimean War) and includes a Creator/JulesVerne-like trip to the Moon.
* ''Queen Victoria's Bomb'' by Ronald W. Clark, about the invention of an atomic bomb a hundred years earlier. It has limited consequence however, as knowledge of the invention is suppressed by the Queen.
* William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's 1990 novel ''TheDifferenceEngine'', while not actually the first instance of Steam Punk, is credited with popularizing the genre in the west. It's also a lot more "punky" than the ones that followed, with its steam-driven Dickensia practically qualifying as a {{Dystopia}}. It was intentionally written as a ''CyberPunk'' novel, set in a Victorian setting.
* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' often drifts into this territory.
* Theodore Judson's ''Fitzpatrick'sWar'', a RomanAClef of the life of AlexandertheGreat, takes place in a steampunk future environment. It's later revealed that this is because [[spoiler:a secret society set up a Star Wars Defense Grid in space to fry any electronic devices on the planet's surface with giant lasers.]]
* Jay Lake's ''Clockwork Earth'' series is set InAWorld where [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy the "Watchmaker analogy" of Deism]] is real in the most literal sense: the world is divided at the equator by an insurmountable wall that connects the Earth to the heavens with giant brass cogs. Instead of stars, you can see other planets' clockwork tracks. The Britain Empire [[AlternateHistory retains all her Northern Hemisphere lands, including the Americas]], the Victorian/Edwardian era protagonists have all sorts of interesting steampunk devices, including [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airships]], and the Angel Gabriel is made of brass and cogs.
* ChinaMieville's works contain some elements, most notably ''PerdidoStreetStation'' and ''Literature/TheScar''.
* L.E. Modessitt's ''Recluce'' saga flirts with the genre. It never quite gets there, however; the leadership of the titular nation deliberately withholds the steam-based technology from general knowledge in an effort to preserve the status quo. But that doesn't stop things from getting out of hand in ''The Death of Chaos'' entry in the series.
* Michael Moorcock's ''The Warlord of the Air'' was an early example of this trope.
* Since the series revolves so much around time, it's fitting that Garth Nix's ''KeysToTheKingdom'' series features a lot of clockpunk-esque technology when inside the House.
* S.M. Peters's ''Whitechapel Gods'' has a SteamPunk ''god,'' in addition to a clockwork counterpart, both of them with their own armies of coal-driven and clockwork soldiers, respectively. This particular novel draws heavily on the "punk" park of SteamPunk; it's not a happy place.
* The ''HisDarkMaterials'' series by PhilipPullman includes steampunk elements, especially for Lyra's world. The trope is minimally deployed--and Pullman never goes out of his way to describe any obviously Steampunk technology or settings. For example, the power source of choice is electricity (refereed to as anbaric power--from amber, which the Greeks call electrum) supplied by nuclear generators (atomcraft works--from the German ''Atomkraftwerk''), and science is mostly working on particle physics). The book feels more steampunk than it is probably because the opening chapters take place in the rather old-fashioned University of Oxford, features a few incidental airships, and prominently features a cast of powerful politicians, aristocrats, industrialists, and explorers with high-flown titles who bestrode the world with a swagger and a MightyWhitey self-confidence that can only be described as Victorian. Not to mention the almost Dickensian take on English class relations.
** The film, on the other hand, plays the steampunk for all the trope's worth.
* Philip Reeve's ''[[MortalEngines Hungry City Chronicles]]'' are YA examples.
** His ''Literature/{{Larklight}}'' series is at the other end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.
* ''[[http://www.wetanz.com/dr-grordbort-s-contrapulatronic-dingus-directory Doctor Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory]]'' is a stimulating compendium of CoolButInefficient destructive devices, electro-motive engines and health-enhancement machines for all enthusiasts of the genre known as "steam-punk," plus those gentlemen of leisure who feel that their masculinity would be grossly enhanced by the acquisition of an [[{{BFG}} Exterminator of Prodigious Dimensions]].
* Creator/JulesVerne's ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', set in Victorian times and featuring a technologically advanced ''submarine'', would qualify if not for the minor detail that the book was ''written'' during the Victorian era.
** Same for some of Creator/HGWells' books.
* ''The Court of The Air'' by StephenHunt is this set in an AlternateHistory -- very alternate -- as is ''The Kingdom Beneath the Waves'', a semi-sequel set in the same universe a few years later and featuring some of the characters of the first book in larger or smaller roles. ''The Rise of the Iron Moon'' is the third book, a more closely related sequel.
* [[http://www.snowbooks.com/shop_9781905005888.html The Affinity Bridge]] is a [[AffinityBridge self-styled SteamPunk detective story]] heavily involving, amongst other things, [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld airships]], something of a [[PluckyGirl plucky]] [[TheWatson sidekick]] and ''[[NotUsingTheZedWord revenants.]]'' However, it is a surprisingly good example of genre fiction.
* Creator/AnthonyTrollope wrote mainly fairly realistic novels. But towards the end of his life, he wrote ''The Fixed Period'' which imagined a world of his future in which people got around on "steam-powered tricycles" and played cricket with "a mechanical steam bowler". By the way, he wrote this in the early 1880s, making this OlderThanRadio.
* ''Hermeticon'' by Vadim Panov is a space age steampunk where people travel space with [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld alchemy-powered zeppelins]].
* The trilogy ''Literature/{{Leviathan}}'' by ScottWesterfeld is about an AlternateHistory version of WorldWarI fought between the 'Darwinists' (the Entente Powers), who use fabricated animals, and the 'Clankers' (Central Powers), who use mechanical walkers and zeppelins.
* The [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz books]], surprisingly enough. Yes, the place is loaded with magic, but it also has some interesting technological features like prosthetics (Nick Chopper, Captain Fyter), cell phones (The Wizard, on one of his return trips, whips one up), RidiculouslyHumanRobots (Tik-Tok), artificial life forms ([=ChopFyt=]), and cities that can sink or rise mechanically (plot point in ''Glinda of Oz'').
* The ''ClockworkCentury'' series is an AlternateHistory created by Cherie Priest, in which the AmericanCivilWar has raged for nearly two decades thanks to [[LensmanArmsRace both sides adopting]] SteamPunk and DieselPunk technology, and features {{Sky Pirate}}s, {{Cool Airship}}s, {{Mad Scientist}}s and ActionGirl heroines.. Oh, and there are also zombies.
* ''Literature/ArcadiaSnipsAndTheSteamworkConsortium'' is steampunk played straight.
* The Neo-Victorian clade from ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' deliberately modelled their technology to be aesthetically Victorian and steampunk-ish despite having a full mastery of nanotechnology.
* ''{{Havemercy}}'' features a military fleet of magical clockwork dragons. This may technically fall under "clockpunk" more, but it is often associated with the SteamPunk aesthetic.
* ''TheParasolProtectorate'' Series by Gail Carriger features heavy Steampunk elements, along with an alternate history London where supernaturals influence society.
* Arthur Slade's ''Literature/TheHunchbackAssignments'' series is full-on late Victorian steampunk.
* George Mann's ''Ghosts of Manhattan'' takes place in a world in transtition between Steam Punk and DieselPunk.
* ''The Mockingbird'' (rus. ''Peresmeshnik)'' by Alexey Pekhov is set in quasi-victorian fantasy world, where steampunky technologies co-exist with [[GiantSpider giant spiders]] as police, [[CatFolk cat people]] as army, [[HornyDevils demon girls]] as courtesans, and [[JackTheRipper a victorian homicidal psycho]].
* In ''Literature/TheLostThing'', both the creature and the verse itself are rather steampunky in appearance.
* Predicted in the conclusion of ''[[http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/king.html The King]]'' by Creator/RudyardKipling.
* The Apt races in Adrian Tchaikovsky's ''Shadows of the Apt'' use a lot of this type of tech together with some [[ClockPunk clockwork tech]].
* The ''Vampire Empire'' trilogy by Clay and Susan Griffith
* Sharonan society in DavidWeber and Linda Evans ''Hell's Gate'' series is based on a combination of this and PsychicPowers.
* SteamPunk meets RobotUprising in the short story ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sellar_07_11/ Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika]]'' by Gord Sellar, in which an uprising of mechanikae beginning in 1897 Bohemia leads to the destruction of humanity and their culture, with a melancholy aftermath as the robots try to come to terms with what they've done through art and music.
* Dexter Palmer's debut novel ''Literature/TheDreamOfPerpetualMotion'' brings SophisticatedAsHell to a new art form, with elements of ''Theatre/TheTempest'', ''TheWizardOfOz'', and ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''.
* The ''Pax Britannia'' SharedWorld, including Jonathan Green's series about Ulysses Quicksilver, Agent of the Empire, and Al Ewing's Mexican adventurer El Sombra (overlaps with CattlePunk). Contains lots of {{Shout Out}}s.
* ''The Falling Machine'' by Andrew P. Mayer (Book 1 of an ongoing trilogy) is about a SteamPunk {{Superhero}} team called The Society of Paragons.
* ''Literature/TheCorsayBooks'' are steam punk flavored with some heavy dashes of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]].
* DevonMonk's ''Literature/AgeOfSteam'',
* ''MortalEngines''
* In Ian [=McDonald=]'s ''Planesrunner'' [[AlternateHistory Earth 3]] or E3 is a mix of this and Raygun gothid. Coal is the main fuel because there's no oil but there are no steam engines because the electric motor was invented first. There are airships but their gasbags are woven of carbon nanotubes, vehicles all operate off a power grid but their computers or "comptaters" use vacuum tubes. The protagonist refers to it as "electropunk".
* Andrew Mayers ''Society of Steam'' series which is about steam powered superheroes and villains in the Gilded Age.
* ''Literature/TheExtraordinaires''
* ''Fitzgerald's War'' is set in a future where this type of technology and society is deliberately maintained by a SecretSociety called the Linemen because they consider it an ideal of stability.
* Several of {{Robert Rankin}}'s novels are set in/relate to a high-tech Victorian age whose history was supressed by those fiendish witches The Chiswick Townswomen's Guild.
* {{Stormdancer}} has a steampunk version of Japan. It's a heavy {{deconstruction}}, since they've completely ruined the environment.
* Gail Carriger's ''Alexia Tarrabotti'' novels mix Steam Punk with weerewolves, vampires, the titular plucky heroine and a tongue-in-cheek attitude.
* Balogun Ojetade's ''Literature/MosesTheChroniclesOfHarrietTubman'', an early work of what the author dubbed "steam funk" (black steam punk), has real life abolitionist Harriet Tubman fighting the forces of evil with superpowers in a steam punk alternative version of the US shortly after the assassination of AbrahamLincoln
* S.S. Taylor's ''TheExpeditioners'' takes place in an alternate present where computers were invented in the Gilded Age and crashed on a massive scale sometime in the early '80s leaving society to go back to older technologies.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'' has steampunk "wallpaper".
** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' is set in the floating city of Columbia, which was made as flying monument of American Exceptionalism, and a secret superweapon. The inhabitants live in a Edwardian Era steam punk society, mixed with some bits from the modern era, which are taken from tears, that lead to the future.
* In ''CityOfHeroes'', one of the most dangerous and tricky archvillains around is "Nemesis, the Prussian Prince of Automation," sometimes referred to as the Brass Prince. He uses Steampunk technology that easily matches and surpasses most of the sleek sci-fi technology of the universe, right down to his personal, steam-powered battlesuit. Oh, and how 'bout a steam-powered cybernetic implant?
** On the player side, there's some pretty funky steampunk costume pieces. They sadly lack boots in the set, but the Piston Boots fit very well. (no pun intended) The ''Going Rogue'' expansion included a Praetorian group of heroes in steampunk inspired garb fighting against the tyranny of Tyrant's empire. Their design highly resembles a heroic, steampunk version of the Primal Earth Freakshow villain group. They also put out a Steampunk pack on July 1st for players.
* ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'' and its sequel were full of Steam Punk.
* The RPG ''ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' features an unusual take on the concept. It is set in a stereotypical HighFantasy world featuring humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, ogres, orcs, various crossbreeds between them and other such trappings of Tolkien-esque fantasy. The twist is that an industrial revolution began in this world called Arcanum circa 60 years earlier, with the result being that most of the main cities of the world are at at steampunkish version of late 19th century industrialised societies level of technology. This means that railroads, pneumatic tube subways, telegraphs, gnomish capitalists, orcs as mistreated factory workers and other fantasy-ish twists on concepts taken from steampunk or history are present. A prominent theme is the conflict between Magic and Technology, where Magic is based [[FunctionalMagic on the caster subverting the usual laws of physics through willpower]] and the new-fangled Technology is based around exploiting the laws of physics to achieve a desired result, thus actually strengthening the laws of physics around machinery. The net result is that having a magic user present can cause a machine to malfunction, and a complex machine can in turn cause magic to fail in a certain radius around it.
* The ''{{Thief}}'' game series has a generous mix of DarkerAndEdgier SteamPunk and ClockPunk, especially in the second game with the Mechanist technology.
* ''FinalFantasy'' constantly cycles between this, CyberPunk, clockpunk and [[PunkPunk every Punk in the book]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' has the Ronka Ruins, a ruin full of LostTechnology that serves as a cross between Steampunk and the EternalEngine, before it, there is the Steamship, which is a massive fire-powered boat created by Cid and Mid for the industrial nation of Karnak, which eventually serves as a CoolBoat for the heroes.
** Even moreso is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', set as it is in the middle of a second industrial revolution, with railroads, trains, and steamboats being common features. Narshe is loaded with coal mines, railroads, and heaters that keep the snowy streets warm, the kingdom of Figaro is centered in a ''submersible castle'' that is powered with massive steam engines, and King Figaro himself, with all manner of gadgets, up to and including an AutomaticCrossbow. TheEmpire, on the other hand, uses [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the life force of enslaved Espers]] to power its MagiTek armored walkers and Air Force, and some of the more elite soldiers are actually cyborgs, as they utilize computer programs in battle and short circuit when attacked with lightning or water.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', airships and other heavy machinery are mostly [[MetaphysicalFuel run by the Mist, a strange natural resource with magical properties]] that is later discovered to be derived from [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the souls of the dead]]. Halfway through the game, the heroes slay the monster who was capturing these souls and as a consequence, all long-distance travel halts due to the Mist vanishing. Thankfully, Regent Cid has been developing the steam engine- which eventually results in the creation of [[CoolAirship a steam-powered airship which the heroes can use to their advantage]].
* The Temen-ni-Gru tower in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' has elevators and monorail trams, amongst other things, powered by clockpunk. Even complete with power shortages.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' had a vanished race of dwarves who used steampunk technology. Their clockwork robots and steam-powered cities still repaired themselves hundreds of years after the dwarves [[spoiler: misused the gigantic heart of a dead god, and caused their entire race to wink out of existence]].
** Skyrim and Hammerfell are also littered with that race's ruins, and the steam-powered magic robots still work there as well. This doesn't even get into the magical spaceships from the backstory.
* ''SteambotChronicles'' (''Bumpy Trot'' in Japan) utilizes large steam-powered trots for everything (except flying, because [[spoiler:most]] Trotmobiles can't fly). The rest of the robots are powered by internal combustion engines. [[spoiler:As illustrated when fuel prices (along with others) skyrocket when the desert oil wells are captured by the Bloody Mantis.]]
* ''ShiningForce'' and its sequel, ''ShiningForce II'', featured steam-powered armor, ships, and ''[[SchizoTech robots]]''.
* Almost all technology in the "present" in ''VideoGame/DarkCloud 2'' is steampunk. Even the weapons.
* This is the whole PREMISE of the new MMORPG ''NeoSteam''.
* The Goblins and Gnomes of the ''{{Warcraft}}'' series are steam punk fanatics, each trying to outdo the other with technological prowess.
* The Vinci faction in RTS ''RiseOfLegends'' are an example of clockpunk that creep into steampunk as they ramp up their technology tree - notably in the Steam Cannon, Steam Tank, Steam Fortress, and, eventually, a giant spider-crab robot known as the Land Leviathan. {{Hero Unit}}s Giacomo and The Doge also use steam-powered Humongous Mecha.
* ''VideoGame/SteelEmpire''.
* The excellent flash game ''[[http://www.miniclip.com/games/dirk-valentine/en/ Dirk Valentine and the Fortress of Steam]]''. As you'd guess from the title, the game practically '''runs''' on Steampunk.
* Another flash game example is the ''{{Stormwinds}}'' series (it can be found on [[http://herointeractive.com/ this website]]).
* In ''SnoopyFlyingAce'', the weapons Snoopy uses are outlandishly over the top, to a Ratchet and Clank degree. The weapons and airplanes are steam punk influenced, with a bit of comic book sci fi thrown in. Also the Zeppelin doomsday devices.
* The ''WildArms'' JRPG series combines this with TheWestern and ScavengerWorld.
* The RPG ''ThousandArms''.
* ''VideoGame/FableII'' is loaded to the brim with the Clockpunk variation, with clockwork mechanisms used to permit semiautomatic rifles, intricate automatic locks, and other such things in an otherwise very 18th century setting.
** And then ''Fable III'' jumps into steampunk with both feet, as it occurs in an early 19th century setting. The Indistrial Knight DLC lets you dress up in a suit of ''extremely'' steampunk armor complete with gear motif and glowing goggles.
* The Skytown area in ''MetroidPrime 3: Corruption'' is very steampunk-inspired (complete with enemies like Tinbots and Steam Lords), following in the footsteps of the cyberpunk-inspired Sanctuary Fortress area in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''.
* The first four ''{{Myst}}'' games fall into this category, since they take place in the early 1800's, and Atrus' technology, though not always using steam, is at least steampunk-inspired. Myst V and Uru take place in the present day, but ancient D'ni technology continues this tradition.
* The Northmen faction in ''ParaWorld'' make use of some Steampunk devices. While a steam battleship would probably not fit the trope (they existed in real life), steam tanks are more fitting for the trope. This is Hand Waved by the fact that the parallel world lacks electricity.
* While the overall series would be classified as cyberpunk or postcyberpunk, the [[DotHackGUGames .Hack//G.U. games]] feature some steampunk technology (for example, the steam bikes). In fact you even meet at least one steampunk fanatic in the game.
** The Steampunk elements in the series can easily be seen by looking at the city of Mac Anu. In The World R:1 it's a CanalCity ala Venice. In R:2, it's still canal city (but with a radically different layout, but the canals are rarely shown in use and steam based Robots serve as the [=NPCs=] rather then the Humans of the previous version. SteamPunk fixtures are common. In the World R:X the Steam Punk elements have been removed but the layout of the city seems to be the same as R:2.
* The [[PunnyName "passively]] [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame multiplayer]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin online game"]] known at the moment as ''[[http://thenethernet.com/ The Nethernet]]'' (previously PMOG), is based on the concept of the internet as a battleground between [[OrderVersusChaos order and chaos]], and has quite a SteamPunk/Clock Punk flavour, with part of the arsenal available to players including a "mechanical watchdog" for guarding websites and more besides, despite the somewhat cartoony illustration style and AppliedPhlebotinum heavy tools which some classes have.
* The ''SummonNight'' series mixes medieval Europe with railroads, modern factories, along with other things, resulting in SteamPunk. This is a result of the game's universe being populated by beings from multiple other ones, bringing influences with them.
* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' {{Verse}} - especially [[PS3 current-gen]] installments - includes visual themes [[RecycledInSpace not unlike]] Steampunk. All the futuristic machinery is [[ShinyLookingSpaceships pretty shiny]], but rough around the edges. Newly-released [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight Crack In Time]] is a prominent example.
* ''DarkWatch''
* ''Zelda'' series may slowly be drifting away from the standard MedievalEuropeanFantasy or OceanPunk setting and towards this, with the inclusion of steam technologies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks''.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' goes as far as to include robots and TechnoWreckage.
* {{Precursor}} technology in ''JakAndDaxter'' looks very Steampunk-inspired. Even in the technologically advanced BadFuture, whatever Precursor artifacts and robots remain appear to be steam-powered.
* ''LunarTheSilverStar'' has this with a giantic BaseonWheels called the Grindery that serves as the final dungeon (subverted in the remake ''SilverStarStoryComplete'', in which it is magic powered). There are also a number of steampunk enemies, including a boss called the Dragon Tank.
* An atmospheric, moody VisualNovel [[FanTranslation fan-translated]] in 2009 named ''SekienNoInganock'', though things are called by numerous different names.
* The Arcadia world in ''TheLongestJourney'' and its sequel. Well, the part where [[TheEmpire The Empire of Azadi]] conquered, at least.
* Machine Labyrinth from ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' is very steampunk, including steam cannons and pipes as level gimmicks.
* The ''ProfessorLayton'' games have this, particularly in ''Professor Layton And The Unwound Future'', where most of the game takes place in a steampunk aesthetic, although, it could be described as ''Clock Punk'', but that's just splitting hairs.
* ''{{Steamband}}'' is a {{Roguelike}} with a steampunk theme (One of the races is a steammecha, for example.), in which the goal is to get out of the earth's core to the surface.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' can arguably be this, thanks to the frequent use of airships and references to an apocalypse forcing people to live in the sky.
* In the original ''KingdomHearts'', Hollow Bastion could be considered steam punk, or at least ClockPunk.
* ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' has some steampunk/clockpunk influences, especially when you're in the Mad Hatter's realms. Two levels of the maze portion of the game involve making your way through a giant steam-powered machine.
* In ''DrawnToLife: The Next Chapter'', Lavastream is this.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence'' takes place in an industrialized world, an oddity for the TalesSeries, which usually sticks to MedievalEuropeanFantasy with LostTechnology. The intro prominently shows a steam train and a steam boat, and steam engines are referenced a few times.
* ''[[{{Ultima}} Worlds of Ultima: Martian Dreams]]'' was about a manned space journey to Mars in an [[AlternateHistory alternate 19th century.]]
* The MMORPG (sort of) ''{{Neopets}}'' has a world called Moltara, where all the Neopian denizens that hail from it live underground in huge steam and lava-filled caverns, and the theme of the world is very obviously SteamPunk influenced. There was even a plot involving it a while back.
* Early designs for ''EpicMickey'' were heavily influenced by SteamPunk. The finished product landed more in SchizoTech, but some of the early elements are still visible, like the automaton versions of Goofy, Daisy, and Donald.
* ''UnwrittenLegends'' has a class centered around the creation and use of steampunk gear.
* ''{{Space 1889}}'' a computer RPG based on [[CaptainObvious tabletop RPG of the same name]].
* Dwemer robots and ruins in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''.
* ''SecondLife'' has a rather significant Steampunk population with entire regions devoted to roleplaying, including Celedon, New Babbage, Winterfell, and Steelhead.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has a number of quest series that are full of steampunk. Elemental Workshop, the Penguin series (don't ask), the Dwarf series has some aspects, and a number of other series occasionally have the player operating some sort of machine that shouldn't exist in the Middle Ages.
* ''Videogame/GunsOfIcarus'' is Steampunk-themed, with ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld and lots and lots of SkyPirates.
* ''Robo {{Aleste}}'' is set in an AlternateHistory Sengoku period Japan that suddenly underwent a technological leap to around 1900 and started making HumongousMecha.
* ''{{Wizard101}}'' has the some elements of this scattered throughout the spiral, the world of Marleybone's technology is in the middle of evolving to this from ClockPunk. They even have {{Golem}}s based on it.
* ''Videogame/{{Vessel}}'' relies heavily on the steampunk aesthetics.
* ''VideoGame/AztecWars'' has alement of steampunk in its AlternateHistory. The Russians, the Chinese and to some extent, the Aztecs use steam-powered tanks and turrets that have cannons mounted on them, shoot huge arrows... or... toss giant axes?!
* ''{{Dishonored}}'' has a very SteamPunk art design. Protagonist Corvo wears an elaborate mechanical mask, and carries a clockwork heart accessory. The non-player characters also wear very Victorian-style wardrobes. A spreading plague (not unlike the one that affected the UK during the era) is central to the plot. However, rather than steam being the dominant power source, the game world instead runs on whale oil.
* Most of the heavy machinery in ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' is steam or water driven, though this is accurate to the time period (1839). One note can be found by the Baron lamenting the necessity of steam tech; it may work, but it's large, noisy, and crude.
-->'''Baron''': Where the inventor of this device would require a magnifying glass to make his minute adjustments, I must push five men to erect a tower of iron, in the hopes of harnessing even one hundredth of the same energy!
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* Despite the presence of oil, the First World War was pretty steampunk. You've got mid-late 1800's strategy and tactics (and even military fashion) meeting (then) high technology featuring fleets of airships in the sky, cantakerous early warplanes, riveted-steel early tanks (which were even called Landships back then), heavily armed & armoured steamships, monstrous pieces of artillery, armored trains and many other bizarre equipment that would not have been out of place in a steampunk piece of media.
** Of note, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tank Steam Tank]] was an actual tracked combat vehicle developed during the closing period of the war, as well as one of the first tanks to mount a [[KillItWithFire flame thrower]]. Developed too late to see any combat, the concept was latter deemed AwesomeButImpractical due to the low crew survivability in the case [[MadeOfExplodium the steam engine was ruptured]].
*** Of course, it was also extremely DieselPunk, with the advent of modern tactics and technology, the dawn of a new type of war and a new type of world spanning the globe, and phenomenal new types of society. As such, in many ways it is the border between the two punks, and a useful case study in how the two can be blended.
* UsefulNotes/{{Airships}} and [[TropesOnAPlane airplanes]] have roots in Victorian-era steampunk. Henri Giffard's airship, the first powered aircraft in the world, flew in 1852 using a steam engine. The ''Eole'' bat-steam-plane flew in 1893. Barely.
* There was a little bit of SteamPunk in AncientGreece. One of the most famous examples is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria Hero of Alexandria]] who built, among other things, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile a primitive steam engine]], a wind-powered organ, a vending machine that dispensed holy water, force pumps for fire engines, and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s_fountain a hydrostatically powered fountain]]. Some historians today actually debate why the Ancient Greeks did not have an Industrial Revolution; a leading theory is that the abundance of cheap slave labor and a corresponding shortage of easily obtainable fuel served as a disincentive.
* Jake von Slatt's [[http://www.steampunkworkshop.com/ Steampunk Workshop]].
* [[http://www.datamancer.net/ Datamancer's]] creations.
* The [[http://www.steamtreehouse.com/ Steampunk Treehouse]] from Burningman.
* [[http://www.wetanz.com/holics/index.php?catid=4 Weta Workshop]]
* [[http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/steampunk-art-gear-drb-series.html Dark Roasted Blend]] has lots of photos on the subject.
* [[http://outlandarmour.com/ Outlands Armour]]
* [[http://www.etsy.com/shop/clockworkzero Steampunk jewelry]] Although steampunk stuff is so ubiquitous on Etsy, and the term is so often misapplied to decidedly non-steampunk crafts, that [[http://www.regretsy.com/ Regretsy]] (often NSFW, so beware) runs a regular [[http://www.regretsy.com/category/not-remotely-steampunk/ "This Is Not Steampunk"]] feature.
* [[http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/bionicarm.html Steampunk Prostethic arm]] works using rocket-style motors that run on steam. One of the stranger side effects this will have when in production is that the excess steam will be vented off as sweat.
* Even today steam engines[[hottip:*:They're steam turbines instead of older, less efficient reciprocating piston engines, but they're still engines driven by steam.]] drive submersibles, tremendous ships of war, and power cities. But since the water is boiled by radioactive isotopes and not by coal or wood, we tend to call them "nuclear reactors" nowadays. There's a reason they called the first Atomic Sub the Nautilus!
* What people hardly realize today is that fact that many weird inventions in Creator/JulesVerne's novels were based on actual technologies of his time, blown UpToEleven and therefore pretty hard to be put in practice. As ''Nautilus'' had been based on the RealLife ''Plongeur'' (1863-1872), which it resembled in description, but which also performed poorly (a top speed of barely 4 knots, while the battery-powered ''Nautilus'' was said to make ''50 knots''(!), Robur the Conqueror's 150mph automobile from 1904 ''Master Of The World'' had been based on RealLife ''Jamais Contente'' racecar from 1899 (again electrically-powered) and so on. And, strangely connecting SteamPunk and DieselPunk ages [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot together]] in RealLife, the British Great Western Railway ran from 1838 to 1892 high-speed trains on 2,140mm gauge tracks, prefigurating Adolf Hitler's plan of the 3,000mm gauge ''Breitspurbahn'' which was never built.
** Other example contemporary to [[Creator/JulesVerne Verne]] himself: would you say [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/GNR_Stirling_1_at_Doncaster_Works.jpg this open-cabin locomotive with weird baroque wheels]] is a modern SteamPunk rendition? Nope. It's the British Great Northern Railway [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Single Stirling Single class]] from the golden age of steam, able to run ''with train attached'' at 85mph (137kph) continuously... in 1870! Makes you wonder [[DirtyJobs how the crew dealt with]] the primitive semaphore signaling and open cabin in harsh winters.
** Her broad-gauge sister, the 2,140mm gauge [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_Iron_Duke_Class GWR Iron Duke class]] ran 80 mph ''in the late 1840s'', for the matter.
** The gigantic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern_(ship) ''SS Great Eastern'']] launched in 1858 impressed Verne enough to write [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Floating_City a novel]] about it. It laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 (and other cables thereafter) just because it was the largest ship available in the world. It had almost twice the displacement of a WWI battleship and [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot it could sail as well as steam along]].
** The description of [[MadScientist Professor Schultze's]] 1,500mm caliber giant cannon from ''The Begum's Millions'' (1879) matches [[UpToEleven a scaled-up version]] of the Krupp 355mm breech-loader cannon able to launch 1000pdr shells shown at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition (where it raised the awe of the people).
** Age of Steam saw also weird small arms designs which were far too modern and impractical for the time, as the first [[http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/1/Thornycroft.JPG bullpup]] [[http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/1/Thornycroft1.JPG rifle]] in the world (1901) and the first [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Pistol_Borchardt_C93_Adams_1.jpg semi-automatic]] pistol (1893). In the same vein of firearm design, if most modern bolt-action rifles can trace their construction to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_98 Mauser 98]], but improved in detail over 100 years, there is a type of gun ''which reached perfection in 1875'' and is still used in original form: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxlock_action the boxlock break-action rifle or shotgun]]. A modern double barrel gun is in no way technically different from the gun a GreatWhiteHunter wielded.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telautograph The first fax machine]] appeared in 1888 - the golden age of steam. Creator/JulesVerne himself described it summarily in ''Propeller Island'' (1895) as "the device which wires writing as the telephone wires speech".
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ Steampunk Turntable]]. Taking this trope literally.
* Modern architects slip into this trope when trying to adapt 19th century architecture and technology to modern life, instead of simply letting them to be razed and replaced:
** Vienna's 1896 [[http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/viennas-gas-tank-city.html Gasometers]], four giant buildings made for town gas storage. Turned into a modern complex of apartments, shopping malls and interior gardens.
** Paris [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay Musée d'Orsay]], built in the main hall of a former temple of Steam Age, a railway station.
** Anvers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerpen-Centraal_railway_station Central rail station]], converted from an ornate ground level 19th century terminus station into a four-level modern station incorporating a tunnel for high-speed rail.
** Modernized building of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUM_(department_store) Moscow GUM]]: Steam Age department store fitted with modern amenities.
* Also, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-tech_architecture High-Tech]] architectural style may slip into SteamPunk when it tries to incorporate in buildings exposed structures, decorations made from industrial appliances and other stuff which give to an office building the look of a modernized steam plant or oil refinery: London [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_Building Lloyd's Building]] (even better when [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot it does also incorporate the 1925 façade]]) or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou Centre Georges Pompidou]] of Paris (where glass-encased escalators also add a bit of RaygunGothic).
* Want [[http://lolmart.com/product/lolmart-steam-wars/?utm_source=ads&utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=500_11-4-11_STEAM_FAIL this]] shirt you do.
* [[Film/{{Ghostbusters}} Whom shall you telegram?]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBs_ixR0Z68 The League of S.T.E.A.M.]]!
* Since Music/DoctorSteel was a SteamPunk musician and the founder of his fan site is a steampunk fashion designer, it isn't surprising to see steampunk fashion influences in the uniforms of the [[Website/ToySoldiersUnite Army of Toy Soldiers]].
* The first programmable computer was designed by Charles Babbage using only mechanical processes. While the concept of the design was never fully realized in his lifetime, workable versions were built for much more simplified puposes, making the idea feasible. It wouldn't be until 120 years after his death that a complete and working version of it was build in 1991 using the plans for his Difference Engin No. 2 with materials and within the engineering tolerances of his time. It worked and there is interest in testing his design for the Analytical Engine he designed in 1837, which, if it works, would make it the oldest design for a Turing-complete computer.
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