Name: The Steampunk Adventurer's Guide: Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone Can Make von Thomas Willeford
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The Steampunk Adventurer's Guide: Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone Can Make Thomas Willeford

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Fascinatingly Fun, Family-Friendly Steampunk Projects

Here's a Steampunk tale with an invitation to build Steampunk props. An interactive notion; an imaginative adventure; and a way to further stimulate your own imagination. -- From the Foreword by David Silverman, director and producer of The Simpsons Movie and codirector of Monsters, Inc.

Steampunk stalwart Thomas Willeford cordially invitesyou on an adventure--one in which you get to build ingenious devices of your own! Lavishly illustrated by award-winning cartoonist Phil Foglio, The Steampunk Adventurer's Guide: Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone Can Make presents 10 intriguing projects ideal for makers of all ages and skill levels, woven into an epic tale of mystery and pursuit.

Follow the exploits of Isaac and Amelia, a brother and sister who must devise a series of beguiling gizmos to rescue their uncle from a skyship that's been commandeered by a nefarious villain and his rogue automatons. Each chapter contains an installment of this captivating story along with the step-by-step instructions and list of tools and materials you'll need to create the featured gadgets.

Discover how to forge these imaginative contraptions:

Decoder armguard
Signaling periscope
Goggles
Grappling hook launcher
Airship harness
Glider wings
Rivet gun
Power armor
Magnetic amplification gauntlet
Rocket pack

Über Thomas Willeford

Thomas Willeford (aka Lord Archibald Feathers Featherstone), a Steampunk enthusiast, is an artist, mechanologist, inventor, and the proprietor of Brute Force Studios. He has been creating unique and beautiful corsets and all manner of striking Steampunk gadgetry for more than 20 years. Thomas is the author of the critically acclaimed Steampunk how-to book Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos (McGraw-Hill Professional). He and his products have been widely featured on television (MTV, BBC, Castle, and Oddities), online (Wired, Forbes, and Popular Mechanics), and in print (The Art of Steampunk, The Steampunk Bible, and Steampunk: An Illustrated History). Satisfied customers include musician Rick Springfield, director David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie), and actresses Patricia Tallman (Babylon 5) and Virginia Hey (Farscape). Thomas also contributed to the design of Alchemy Gothic's Empire Collection, a line of Steampunk jewelry and accessories.

Thomas's artwork has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions worldwide, including Penn State's STEAMpunk!, Dr. Grymm's Steampunk Bizarre, the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation's Steampunk: Form and Function, and the Ashmolean Museum of the History of Science at Oxford's Steampunk, 20,000 Leagues at Patriot Place, and Mobilis in Mobili at The Wooster Street Social Club (home of The Learning Channel's NY Ink). His clockwork spider Arachnae Mechanica is currently housed in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is currently a consultant and prop master of the Steampunk television series, Bruce Boxleitner's Lantern City.

Phil Foglio is the coauthor, with Kaja Foglio, of the Hugo Award-winning Girl Genius graphic novel series and the novels Agatha H and the Airship City and Agatha H and the Clockwork Princess. Phil has been writing and drawing comics since the 1980s, with work that includes Buck Godot, the adaptation of MythAdventures, and work for DC and Marvel Comics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction
Part the First: Before We Begin
Chapter 1: What Is Steampunk?
Chapter 2: Tools of the Modern Mad Scientist...and Materials, Too
Chapter 3: You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!
Part the Second: The Story
Chapter 4: Decoder Armguard: Wherein our heroes get the message
Chapter 5: Signaling Periscope: Wherein our heroes pass the message along
Chapter 6: Goggles: Wherein our heroes prepare for a trip
Chapter 7: Grappling Hook Launcher: Wherein our heroes get a lift
Chapter 8: Airship Harness: Wherein our heroes fly by night
Chapter 9: Glider Wings: Wherein our heroes get separated
Chapter 10: Rivet Gun: Wherein our heroes get stranded
Chapter 11: Power Armor and Magnetic Amplification Gauntlet: Wherein our heroes are reunited
Chapter 12: Rocket Pack: Wherein our heroes visit their uncle
Chapter 13: Epilogue: Wherein our heroes escape
Part the Third: Hastily Scribbled Laboratory Notes
A. This Way Lies Madness
B. Dramatis Personae
C. For the Brilliant but Mathematically Challenged Mad Scientist
Final Thoughts

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR005998787

ISBN 13

9780071827805

ISBN 10

0071827803

Titel

The Steampunk Adventurer's Guide: Contraptions, Creations, and Curiosities Anyone Can Make Thomas Willeford

Autor

Thomas Willeford

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Datum

20131216

Anzahl der Seiten

240

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N/A

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