#age of steam

[ltwilliammowett]

Lady Cpatain, by Julius Mendes Price ( 1857-1924)

#naval art #lady captain #yachting #19th century #age of sail #age of steam #art

[illustratus]

HMS Challenger by Eduardo de Martino

#hms challenger #art #marine art #eduardo de martino #england #great britain #maritime #pearl class corvette #royal navy #english #british #sea #waves #clouds #full moon #moonlight #moonlit #moon #sky #expedition #ocean #sail #sailing #steam assisted #age of sail #age of steam

[clove-pinks]

A few Fresnel lenses from my visit to the National Museum of the Great Lakes! This one is a fourth-order lens from the lighthouse on Ojibwa Island, Lake Michigan, made in 1891.

A cute little fifth-order lens, which was used in Sandusky Harbor, Ohio, in 1891.

No first-order Fresnel lenses were used on the Great Lakes, and only five second-order lenses were placed. One of them was in the Spectacle Reef Lighthouse on Lake Huron in 1873, now in the museum:

My photography doesn't give a true sense of scale; that second-order lens is huge.

There is also a model of the lightship Huron, which is now a museum ship you can visit.

#great lakes #lighthouse #fresnel lens #naval history #age of sail #age of steam #national museum of the great lakes #lightship

[mycological-mariner]

So I bought this painting of the Cutty Sark in a charity shop for 50p. And on the back it’s got this placard - pretty cool, right? Obviously it’s staying

Obviously the frame is a little busted and it can’t hang but that’s a 10 minute fix.

So I remove the card first thing to save for later and —

It’s a fucking menu. And apparently a really fancy one - it got French words. I’m laughing my ass off because some guy cut out a description of the Cutty Sark from a restaurant menu and stuck it to the back of a painting of said ship. At this point I’m having a blast and joking that “Oh, what’s next, the painting itself is gonna be from the dessert menu, I bet!”

IT WAS THE FUCKING WINE MENU. And this has to be ancient because £1.25 for a bottle of wine?? 20p for a glass?!

So quite a few decades ago some guy stole a menu, took it home, then cut out the painting of The Cutty Sark and it’s description and framed it to presumably hang on their wall. And now it is in my home, on my mantle and whenever I have guests over they’ll go “Oh what a nice picture of a ship!” But they won’t know. Only I will know that it is in fact the front piece of a wine menu. Like. The process behind how this came to be.

I’m keeping this forever.

#I’m gonna treasure this the rest of my life #thought age of sail tumblr might get a kick out of this WEIRD but lovely and honestly hilarious find #that frame was being held together with tape I’m sorry it had to go tho #maybe I’ll paint this one so it’s not so. boring. #it was just a cheap thing from the store #holy shit #incredible find #how did they smuggle it out of the restaurant?? #big coat?? hand bag? under their hat? #anyways #age of sail #age of steam #cutty sark #maritime art #(and it IS art)

[cadmusfly]

Do… does he, you know, sail and use steam power?

#shipposting #age of sail #age of steam #cadmus rambles #bisexual

[vox-anglosphere]

Early roads west were carved through a forbidding wilderness

#Canadian National Railway #Precambrian rock #age of steam #winter landscape #Canadian Shield #forest #wilderness #CNR #CPR #passenger train #romantic travel #scenery #True North

[marryat92]

It is impossible to contemplate any steam-engine, without feeling wonder and admiration at the ingenuity of man; but this feeling is raised to a degree of awe when you look at a locomotive engine—there is such enormous power compressed into so small a space—I never can divest myself of the idea that it is possessed of vitality—that it is a living as well as a moving being—and that idea, joined with its immense power, conjures up in my mind that it is some spitting, fizzing, terrific demon, who, if he could escape control, would be ready and happy to drag us by thousands to destruction.

— Frederick Marryat, "Diary on the Continent" (Olla Podrida)

Inauguration du premier chemin de fer en Belgique or Départ de la Flèche le 5 mai 1835 by Jan Antoon Neuhuys, 1885. An artistic recreation of the new Belgian rail lines of 1835 that Marryat witnessed on his continental tour.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #1830s #railways #train #age of steam #diary on the continent #belgium #jan antoon neuhuys #chemin de fer #olla podrida #travelogue #romantic era

[steelmasts]

Submarine USS Seal (later renamed G-1) photographed in 1912

#submarine #ship #maritime #nautical #ocean #navy #1910s #20th Century #US Navy #USA #age of steam #OP

[unrealthings]

For the boat people in this place, consider helping save the Cape Ray wreck : https://gofund.me/3e6ebe48

It's had a little coverage (obviously bigger things are in the news) but the idea of trying to hold onto a strange visitor from out of the past and the sea hits the sentiments.

#shipwreck #age of sail #naval artifacts #19th century #naval history #age of steam

[roadsidelunatic]

Here’s my contribution to @theterrorbigbang, where I got to collab with the wonderful @fighting-naturalist. Check out her story that inspired this painting here.

#The Terror #the terror amc #james fitzjames #fitzier #my art #digital art #antarctic #arctic #age of sail #age of steam

[ltwilliammowett]

Miscellaneous Fittings on Clipper and other Ships during the 19th century in: China tea clippers, by Campbell, George Frederick, 1974

#naval history #naval artifacts #fittings on ships #19th century #age of sail #age of steam #art #infographic

[clove-pinks]

The Banham Family Magic Lantern Collection. From the auction description:

Of Franklin Expedition and Polar Interest. Thirty-two slides in original box, probably assembled from several sets on Arctic expeditions including those led by Parry and the 'Franklin search'. Single hand-painted glass slides in wooden frames 6 7/8 x 3 3/4 x 3/8 inches.

There are dozens of images, and I recognise some of them from classic polar exploration books like Voyage of the 'Fox' and Parry's narratives. Otherworldly, glowing colours bring the scenes to life.

'Moonlight in the Arctic Regions', 'Parry's First Meeting with the [Inuit]', 'A Magnetic Observatory', ships overwintering, and 'Funeral On The Ice' for an unnamed British subject.

#polar #franklin expedition #polar exploration #age of sail #age of steam #william edward parry #arctic exploration #magic lantern #victorian #the sea #arctic

[ladylexi-of-wind]

New character! Haven’t made a name for her yet, but I did for her cat lol. More under da cut.

The cats name is Missus Baubles and I love it.

Anyway, this character is more of a designer, and while she focuses solely on clothes, she occasionally helps engineers with putting designs over their works.

I wanted to give her a secretary-esque and art-deco look while adorning classy accessories. Unlike Alicia, she cannot breath the surrounding air very well, hence her ventilation mask.

#oc #my oc #orignial character #my original character #steampunk #designer #fashion designer #fashion #steam powered #steam engine #age of steam #victorian #victorian steampunk #kitty #tabby kitty #cat #tabby cat #Missus Baubles #yes I’m making that a tag now #hero forge

[vox-anglosphere]

Vintage railway posters evoke a bygone era of romantic travel.

#British Rail #Yorkshire #vintage posters #nostalgia #1920's #cathedral city #York Minster #viaduct #Age of Steam #UK

[marryat92]

By the steamboats, rail-roads, and the wonderful facilities of water-carriage, a journey of five hundred miles is as little considered in America, as would be here a journey from London to Brighton. “Go ahead” is the real motto of the country; and every man does push on, to gain in advance of his neighbour.

— Frederick Marryat, Diary in America

'Philadelphia Citizen's Line of Steam Boats to New York and Baltimore': 1831 lithograph by William L. Breton.

#frederick marryat #captain marryat #age of steam #1830s #diary in america #travelogue #steamboats #travel #transportation

[steelmasts]

Men of the United States Live-Saving Service in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, circa 1900

#maritime #nautical #ocean #North Carolina #NC #Kitty Hawk #Outer Banks #OBX #history #1900s #20th Century #USA #age of steam #OP