Steampunk Machine Gauges

Gauges are an iconic component of all things steampunk. Unlike the plethora of soulless digital readouts and displays we have today, the Victorians relied on beautiful gauges and other types of mechanical display to find out what their machines were doing. These were used to communicate everything from the decimal number output of a calculating machine, to the pressure in a steam engine. You can see the importance I place on mechanical displays by looking at my other inventions - not a digital display in sight! I have therefore designed five decorative gauges with which to adorn your amazing steampunk inventions, clothing or even the door of your refrigeration machine! Each is constructed from a high quality printed image of the gauge face behind a glass lens. As real gauges have depth, it only seemed fair to house these gauges within 6mm deep metallic brass coloured enclosures.  The video below shows just what goes into the design and manufacture of these gauges. They were created by designing and manufacturing large physical gauges that I then lit and photographed with loving care! The gauges are available with a diameter of either 34mm or 50mm. These display either Tea Strength, Kraken Proximity, Ethereal Luminescence, Steam Head or Potential. To ensure each is sufficiently complicated, the Tea gauge also displays Consumption, the Kraken Proximity gauge employs faceted coloured lenses to indicate port and starboard and the other three have the display arm driven by geared mechanisms. •The gauges are available with diameters of either 34mm or 50mm and are approximately 10mm deep. •They are constructed from a glass lens set within a laser engraved and cut brass coloured surround. •The back of each gauge is black Acrylic that can be fixed onto a flat surface with glue or self adhesive foam pads or tape. •Coincidentally, as was discovered at a steampunk fair, the 50mm diameter lenses fit into a standard pair of steampunk goggles as shown!