And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sure there is, it's just either poorly insulated, or fully exposed (think Jacobs' Ladders, with ascending arcs of lightning, or Van De Graaff generators).
the 'shade' (what there is of it) really makes this. could be even cooler with some beautiful material set between the spines (capiz shell?...horn?...tortoise shell?....even some slivers of a beautiful stained glass)....that way you could use a brighter not-decorative (i.e. useful) bulb and use it for tasks too.
I like it!
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DeleteThat is fabulous! I worked for a US lamp manufacturer for many years; we made a few funky items but nothing this unique!
ReplyDeleteNo electricity in steampunk land I think
ReplyDeleteSure there is, it's just either poorly insulated, or fully exposed (think Jacobs' Ladders, with ascending arcs of lightning, or Van De Graaff generators).
DeleteI'll grant you VERY limited use of DC but if the technology existed for AC circuits, why then rely on steam power at all? Makes no sense long term.
DeleteI hope they took the gate out of that valve.
ReplyDeleteOr some idiot will try turning it.
It should be a valve handle mounted to a rotary switch that turns the lamp on-dim-off.
DeleteIt really should be the switch, the blurb says it's not.
DeleteHere is another example , with the valve being the switch...Google Steampunk lamps...
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the 'shade' (what there is of it) really makes this. could be even cooler with some beautiful material set between the spines (capiz shell?...horn?...tortoise shell?....even some slivers of a beautiful stained glass)....that way you could use a brighter not-decorative (i.e. useful) bulb and use it for tasks too.
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