An Inventor's Shop of Oddities and Gadgets

Clyde Ferrus was an inventor living in a world experiencing an Intellectual Renaissance, a movement that sparked humanity's passion for the understanding of the unknown. Mankind has discovered machinery, watched the stars, and paved the way for enlightened thinking. It was a Golden Age for the ambitious but what could one simple man just wanting to set up a small shop do in all of this?

Well, when you do it in one of the busiest cities in the world...

Apparently a lot.