But Steampunk isn't just an old-timey look slapped onto modern technology, says Ann VanderMeer, co-editor with her husband Jeff of "Steampunk," an anthology of Victorian-inspired fiction. "Steampunk ...
In 1822 the English Mathematician Charles Babbage had an idea for a machine that would perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, ...