Hello I’m back again and it looks like I’m going to be here a lot for the following weeks. My teacher just enrolled us in a blogging challenge🎉. But not really, it’s not my favourite thing to do. Although it doesn’t seem too bad. Anyhow, the main topic for this post is, wait for it, read the title. Transportation in steampunk vs reality.
Well the first of three main different types of transportation is air.
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- Airship
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- Modern-day airplane
The most iconic steampunk air traveller would be an airship or a kind of zeppelin. We as humans used these for awhile but the problem was we used hydrogen which is flammable. Any tiny spark could blow the ship up. However we think that in a steampunk world it would be the best way.
A U.S. Navy airship likely afloat with hydrogen
In modern day however we use airplanes which can come in many different shapes and sizes. Airplanes use fuel based off petroleum most of the time to keep the jet engines going. An advantage of the airplane is that it can be a lot faster than an airship as it relies on the speed to stay aloft.
The second, is land
Cars are part of society nowadays. It’s a necessity for many people. They get better every year, technology and safetty wise. Cars can take us new places quicker than running.
Trains are different than cars though. They as the tankers (below in the water transportation) are made for heavy loads to cross continents.
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- Modern-day car
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- Steam locomotive
Steampunk machines for land transport can be very unique. Some are a bit more similar and likely to have happened like the one below though. Gasoline however is more efficient currently than steam for cars otherwise we might have steam engines.
Possible car except with steam engine
Some funky looking land vehicles like the one below are very unrealistic. There’s nothing very similar to this that’s real that I know of.
Mechanical Spider-ish land vehicle]
The third and last main transportation method is water:
The thing is in many steampunk worlds you won’t hear much mention of water craft. Earth is mostly covered by water so it was kind of a surprise for me. However you will hear about submarines in some steampunk worlds. In a few of the books I’ve read that were kind of steampunk the submarines were mostly for research purposes. At this point all of them are manned pretty much contrary to modern research ones that can be unmanned and controlled with a computer.
Steampunk submarines, many times are for research.
Modern submarines are mostly used for military purposes
Water vessels in reality though, are very important. There’s many things humans have created but are impossible to carry through the air and you can’t travel by land if there is no land. The ships like the one right below are used for heavy transport that can carry huge amounts. Lots of people are very against these enormous ships but they carry many things we use in our daily lives.
Tanker ships carry huge containers in big masses, carry oil and gas, and many other things.
Another main use for boats today is the fishing industries. Although many fish supplies are becoming scarcer, fishing is still a big industry in many places, like the Pacific North West or the East Coast of Canada.
A commercial fishing boat
Well, that’s it for this post, see you soon.
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