Looking for a word

[desperance]

I need a steampunky word, for the people who would take living creatures and mechanical devices and conjoin them in a laboratory, to produce - well, eg great hornets whose bodies are bound about with bands of brass, whose stings are more than ordinarily poisonous, who react to curious and unlikely stimuli in unexpected ways...

Comments

[flick]

'Artificers' seems to be quite a common one.