Steampunk writing prompts

Steampunk runs on invention and bad weather. Pick a prompt and let your group bolt new gears onto the world line by line.

1. A clockmaker's apprentice invents a watch that runs backwards on Tuesdays.
2. An airship captain accepts a passenger who is, on close inspection, also an airship.
3. Two engineers race to build a calculating engine before the king's birthday.
4. A society of women inventors meets in secret in a tea room above a clockmaker's.
5. A telegraph operator receives a message from a station that has never existed.
6. The Queen's new mechanical butler is keeping a diary.
7. A railway architect is told to build a line to nowhere.
8. A balloonist drifts into a country that has banned the sky.