Low Tech Magazine

Doubts on technology

Low Tech Magazine is all about good old tech still in use; and also obsolete tech from the past...

• lowtechmagazine.com
• lowtechmagazine.com/history  --History category
• lowtechmagazine.com/obsolete-technology --Obsolete tech category

A Hindenburg and Zeppelin History Site

Really interesting site about history of zeppelins by Mr. Dan Grossman.
Lots of rare and high-guality photographs from airship era!

• Airships.net
• Airships.net/blog

B-Movie Masters

• www.b-masters.com

Ah.. B-movies...

SteamChan

SteamChan is picture posting board like 4chan and others.. but this board goes only between steampunk and cyberpunk...

• http://steamchan.net/

EDIT: Steamchan is down but there is alternatives: http://www.megachan.net/

Dark Roasted Blend

The Dark Roasted Blend contains hand piced collections of wonderful and weird images from all over the world and aethernet:

There is "Vintage" category in DRB, containing lots of retrofuturistic images and links.
You would also like to check the DRB's Steampunk Art & Gear series...

• http://www.darkroastedblend.com/

Odd Music Gallery

• www.oddmusic.com
• www.odmusic.com/gallery/

Web site about odd musical instruments... Some of these instruments are really retrofuturistic stuff...
Here is some good example: http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om24600.html

SteampunkPics

Collection of selected steampunk pictures..

http://steampunkpics.blogspot.com/

The Steampunk Timeline

"The steampunk timeline of future past"

http://jaborwhalky.com/Site%2014/The%20Steamp...

Modern Mechanix blog

This blog is full of interesting articles and scans from vintage Modern Mechanix magazines;
Old retro-futuristic gadgets, machines and architecture...

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/

English Russia (History section)

...blog about Russia in english..

There is "history" tag in English Russia containing lot's of vintage soviet monuments and tech; So you can find many dieselpunkish or retro-futuristic things from there...

http://englishrussia.com/?cat=12 --- English Russia history section

Tales of Future Past

Site about classical retro-futurism; The future that wasn't...
The great retro-futurism resource...

• http://davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm

Steampunkopedia by Retrostacja

Retrostacja's Steampunkopedia is resource for many steampunk related things like web pages and books..

• http://steampunk.republika.pl/arch/opedia.html

GizmodoSteampunk

Gzmodo is blog about different cool gadgets; And sometimes gizmodo notices steampunk gadgets too; So here is Gizmodos steampunk category full of cool steampunkish things...

• http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/steampunk/

Color photos from 1902

Sergey Prokudin-Grosky was first photographer (and chemist) who captured world in colors...

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky --Wikipedia entry of Sergey Prokudin
  
• http://www.prokudin-gorsky.ru/database.php3?first=0... --Archive of early color photos
  

Internet Sacred Text Archive

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/

Sacred-texts.com contains lots of religious, mythical, folklore and mythology texts from history..
All available for free in the site.

Tom Kidd

"The Worlds Of Tom Kidd"

Official Tom Kid's web-pages and picture galleries:

• http://spellcaster.com/tomkidd/
• http://spellcaster.com/tomkidd/GnemoStoryArt.htm
• http://gnemosketchbook.blogspot.com/
• http://kiddography.blogspot.com/
  

Tom Kidd is artist and illustrator; Airships, steampunk and victorian science fiction themes are widely used in his beautiful works...

The Vimanika Shastra

• http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/vs/ (broken link!)
• http://web.archive.org/web/200... -- Above site in Archive.org
• http://fortunaty.net/com/sacred-... -- Another mirror of complete book
• http://www.bibliotecapleyades... -- Vymanika Shastra Rediscovered
• Vaimanika Shastra -- @ Wikipedia

Mysterious Veda-writing about aerial technology of forgotten Indian (Hindu) culture...

Ancient machinery book, ufo story or Hindu-scifi..?

PS. Originally it's text was some how "channeled" in late 19th century... So it is perfect example of those tech-occult things from 1800's :)

EDIT: Original link does not work any more so I added some new...

The Unmuseum

Interesting stories about unknown and unnatural things.. Hoaxes.. And strange historical stories..

• http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm
  

BrassGoggles : Steampunk Forum

BrassGoggles Steampunk forum is really victorian and old tech oriented forum with growing popularity in internet...

http://www.brassgoggles.co.uk/bg-forum/index.php

Voyages Extraordinaires

Voyages Extraordinaires is blog about everything steampunk related stuff and victorian adventures of future..

http://voyagesextraordinaires.blogspot.com/