For those of you who wax ecstatic over steampunk...

[jhetley]

(And you know who you are):

http://www.2ndmdinfantryus.org/winans.html

Behold, a steam-powered machine gun.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Baltimore needs one of those now!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, you _had_ one. Take it up with the city fathers (great-grandfathers?)

[lolleeroberts.livejournal.com]

I saw that episode last night. That was one heck of a machine. It seemed to be a wee bit unreliable though, without much of a punch.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, Philip Jose Farmer thought they could be improved.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

FWIW ...

I used to live on Wards Chapel Road, about 4 miles from a road I guess si named after that guy...