Question

Can somebody help me find out the era of the actual steampunk age? I need it for historical accuracies in a novel.

Answer 1

Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term steampunk originated largely in the 1980s as a tongue-in-cheek variant of cyberpunk.

Answer 2

First, Steampunk inspiration comes from the Victorian Age, from 1837 to 1901. The movement “reaches directly into the pocket of Victorian England and predicts what the world would be like today had its inhabitants and inventors prevailed over modern technology.”