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The Aetheric Message Machine Company brings text messaging to the Victorian era.

Our other work leads us to need to understand how complex mechanical devices can be made reliable. To this end, we've worked with these complex, yet quite reliable, messaging machines. As an exercise in steampunk technology, we are bringing text messaging into the Victorian era. We send and receive text messages on the machine shown below.

Message machine nameplate Steampunk msg being typed

The Aetheric Message Machine

Steampunk messaging in action.
These messages were sent as cell phone text messages.

Our machinery was at the Nov Albion Steampunk Exhibition in Emeryville, CA, in March, 2010,at Maker Faire in San Mateo, California in May, 2010, and the Wild Wild East Steampunk Exhibition in March, 2011.

Additional information on the construction of the Machine is available on thes pages. We hope that our work will be educational and informative, as well as useful.

We also sell paper tape for older Teletype machines.

We can be reached at info@aetherltd.com.