The Curio

Although falling just on the the Victorian/Edwardian border, there can be few sights more evocative of  the Steampunk aesthetic.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you: The impossibly perilous Motorised Dirigible! 

(Then the Wright Brothers came along and spoilt it all)

Fogonazos: A dream of flying men:

“At the beginning of the XX century, balloon pilots risked their lives flying on the first motorized dirigibles. In 1900, using a motorcycle engine and an aerodynamic hydrogen filled balloon, Thomas Scott Baldwin created the dirigible “California Arrow”, which underwent the first controlled circular flight in America on August 3, 1904.”