Steampunk Design: Reimagining Resilience | Bruce Rosenbaum | TEDxFultonStreet

[@dougmacmcclelland1323]

As veteran mechanical and electrical engineer for over 50 years, I and chuckled and greatly entertained by these creations. They are taking the now ancient tube and transistor electrical engineering that was the main stream electrical practice in my very early days of my craft and making it into art. I am absolutely thrilled by this and love it. I have boxes and boxes of this early stuff in my science catacombs and now know a lot better place for this stuff then the junk yard.

[@rainerlmxresearchletters6215]

Why is the spinning time machine not shown fully, only a few seconds of it? It was part of the TEDx talk. I would love to have seen how steampunk was implemented as an art there.

[@Vothtrucks]

I too build steampunk items but have this funny rule in the back of my mind that spending serious money for antique parts is a no-no. I try to utilize what is found as " junk " Please tell me your thoughts on this view. I am always open to change , but cant step off this one. thanks.

[@MrHarpette]

I feel your pain.

[@daviydviljoen9318]

Well, serious money for antique parts is expensive... And if you build it with stuff you find, it can be good for the environment.

[@dockmasterted]

Oh and I beg to differ on EDISON! ..... Edison was good at finding others to invent. (he was good at taking there inventions and saying they were his because the inventor worked for him) He would have done the same with TESLA, but he did not like the AC electric system. So Tesla left Edison's employ and went his own way.....Thank God for Tesla!

[@jebsmith323]

High school teacher here. Asking for general opinion. Would you associate steampunk with Jules Verne? I'm looking for a way to "wake up" students in an alternative high school who have little interest in reading, play no fantasy video games, and don't watch sci-fi. Most don't even like Star Wars. I need a spark for their imagination. I've realized that when I read Verne, I see steampunk, even before it was a thing.

[@h3lblad3]

KZbin's giving me some problems, so I can't see what responses you've got for some reason, but Abe Books calls Jules Verne the Father of Steampunk. He wasn't really a steampunk author himself (steampunk didn't exist, what he wrote was because of the era he lived in rather than any kind of reimagining), but he's probably a lot of peoples' introduction to steampunk and many people in that scene will have read him. For a similar situation and author, consider HG Wells.

[@LDT7Y]

H G Wells, Harry Potter, Jules Verne... are all technically steampunk. Harry Potter is probably the one they would have heard about. The films are a mash up of medieval and steampunk as far as I know. Maybe get VR headset involved so they can walk around that sort of environment? I recall one of my science teachers combining steampunk with the idea of peak oil and by the end of the term, most of the class were convinced that running out of oil would be great! haha! Probably not what he was going for! But it got us talking and learning. Also, get them to actually write or make something. I hated reading until my teacher had me write my own book. Now I own a small library and collect antique books.

[@Dude_Slick]

That time machine is just a prop. I created a real one. It has a seat that you strap yourself into and it propels you through time. I have tested it myself, and it works. It's still in development and only has one setting. so it only moves through time at the rate of 6e+10 NPM (Nanoseconds Per Minute.)

[@virtue1993]

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[@virtue1993]

Tell me that's a joke-

[@Lee-yr4ib]

Cool👍

[@unbidmuffin]

This is amazing

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

1:10 Oooh I thought it sounded like somthing I'd do lol

[@visteomg]

Yes

[@kenmoore3564]

how does one move that heavy of an object?

[@markm3818]

Emoji Steam Punk📻🎻 🔧🚂💨 ⌚ 🎩 👛

[@Talon5Karrde]

It is not Human and Tech, it is Human and Steam Tech... Also, the bandsaw-table and the computer-organ are not really Steam Punk... They both would need to function as both. Steam Punk is not Rube Goldberg or Found Art. At its highest form, it is using Steam Technology - usually in a miniaturized form - to replace and enhance the function of something modern, at its lowest form it is used as an accent.

[@MrBonners]

Back in the day for the bandsaw it was linked to a steam driven piston driving a belt/pulley clutch system. So it just makes it in for Steampunk designation. Plenty of Steampunk mechanical assemblies do nothing and don't move. However doing something and moving is very much at the fore front. Cost racks, coffee table, clothing...........

[@MrBonners]

Goldberg's contraption drawings were made up of items that in his day were already of old design, repurposed. Many involved a kettle along the chain of events convolutions. Steampunkers get a lot of the many ways to trip a lever and lift a ball. Goldberg would certainly fit in the Dieselpunk group which is a spinoff of Steampunk.

[@chowsing6000]

I don't get it, if I think of living, do I have to think of dying, killing myself?

[@kenmoore3564]

bruce bruce bruce

[@geoffmason6657]

Interesting, but I wish he'd stand still

[@grizeldaxxx4568]

He did say he had habit and walking back and forth...may be like a few of us who's mind works like that

[@kenmoore3564]

the bansaw

[@alexwilsonpottery3733]

Ken Moore , with levers and rollers, pulleys and winches, in the absence of a crane.