A Steam Powered Record Player

Susana Polo

Published: Dec 5, 2010 11:14 am

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Simon Jansen built this fully functional steam-powered record player out of a desire to make something authentically steampunk. His attempts at making a true gramophone, horn and everything, went awry, and so he settled on a turntable that was spun by the power of steam.

He has another video of his engine, Nigel, playing a Sex Pistols record, just to put the “punk” in steampunk, but we like this one better.

(via Laughing Squid.)

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Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.