Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts
Thomas Willefordhas degrees in physics, history, and art. His alter ego, Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone, has displayed his work, which blurs the line between art and engineering, throughout the United States and Europe for years. Willeford&#8217;s work (including the E-pod) was recently featured in the exhibit, &#8220;Device and Contraptions Extraordinaire&#8221; at the Ashmolean University of Oxford museum of the History of Science. He has made costume pieces for Abney Park, Beautiful Deadly Children, and GhostFire. Willeford has been called, "The most photographed person in the Steampunk community.&#8221; He has been featured in Steampunk Bizarre, the BBC, MTV, the Steampunk World&#8217;s Faire, Whitby Gothic Weekend, Glasgow Marker&#8217;s Faire,Piratemagazine, and theDaily Mail.