JH98893 - Steampunk Button - Closed Wheel Button - Antique Nickel Finish 7/8". See our other metal Steampunk buttons, including gears, wheels, clocks, gadgets and flywheels in silver, copper and brass finishes. Picture these buttons finishing up your elaborate Steampunk garments, whether you are anachronists, salvagepunks, dieselpunks, pulp devotees, rakes, bounders, fla?neurs, steampunks, neovictorians, demimondaines, Edwardian scholarly types, airship pirates, or a member of the asylum for the chronotemporally dislocated. Steampunk is a style of dress and/or lifestyle based in the worlds of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Anton Wilson and Alan Moore. It embraces the alternative possibilities of the Victorian England period, where steam power runs elaborately geared machines, women wear corsets and eccentric villains challenge the good guy with outrageous gadgets and inventions. Here is the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk) Definition: Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, Steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century and often Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, Steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain-that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of Steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history. Other examples of Steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of Steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history. Other examples of Steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine. These are great for Steampunk, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Stargate, Doctor Who, Science Fiction, fantasy, X-Files, Lord of the Rings, Serenity