A Steampunk Chart and Writing to Trends

This data comes from Wikipedia's list of steampunk works. I didn't see any glaring mistakes or omissions, so I ran with it. I've called out a few moments in steampunk history, though they are not meant to be comprehensive or even telling. Mostly, they're just some of the steampunk works that influenced me.





Data from Wikipedia, retrieved July 7, 2012.





You can glean what you like from that chart. Here's my (almost certainly biased) analysis:



TRENDS COME IN WAVES


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