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A British-built steam supercar has successfully test-launched ahead of its bid to break a century-old world land speed record for steam-powered vehicles.

The 25ft-long British Steam Car – dubbed the “fastest kettle in the world” – reached speeds of up to 60mph on tarmac at the Ministry of Defence’s Thorney Island facility in Emsworth, Hampshire.

The team hope to break a 103-year-old record by improving on the 127mph reached by American Fred Marriott driving a Stanley steam car in 1906 at the Daytona Beach Road Course. The attempt will take place in California’s Mojave desert in June.

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Outa Spaceman has a shed that brings to mind the total British eccentric tinkering in his/her shed and producing items of wonder that inspire a generation of top sheddies like Baylis, Dibnah and our very own Lyndon Yorke all great sheddies with unique talents, but OSM takes sheddism back to the Victorian age but with Sci-fi overtones, he is a steampunk sheddie.

Click below to see more of the shed.

The things he does in his shed follow the steampunk genre, according to Wikipedia

works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy

Anyway here are a few examples of his work, I love the brain in a jar..

You can see more of his work over here, but if you want to investigate the steampunk wossname then this site is very good.

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