Thomas Willeford is the owner of Brute Force Studios and the author of Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts (McGraw-Hill). His creations have been widely featured on television (BBC, MTV, Castle, Oddities), online (Wired, BoingBoing, Popular Mechanics), and in print (Art Donovan's The Art of Steampunk, Morgan Spurlock and Stan Lee's Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, Engine, Gothic Beauty). Thomas' artwork has also been featured in numerous museum exhibitions worldwide, including Penn State's "STEAMpunk!", Dr. Grymm's "Steampunk Bizarre", the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation's "Steampunk: Form and Function", and the Ashmolean Museum of the History of Science at Oxford's "Steampunk".