JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
I found this nice addition to a series of posts that I've made on this blog on early (pre-1930) mechanical people and robots. Here's a selection of some of the other finds in this area on this site:
A Few Mechanical Men: Antique Anthropomorphic SteamPunk
An Early Robotic Steam-Driven Society-Scrubber
An Acrobatic Non-Semi-Robot, 1876
An Edenless World: the First (?) Metalic Woman Robot
There are many others--just pop in "robot" in the Google search for this site and have at it. I wanted to get this posted here before I lost it. Again.
Caption: "Agriculture, commerce, and manufacture are all in my power. My interest is in the higher law of American politics."
Source: Frank Bellew, "The American Frankenstein," New York Daily Graphic (14 Apr 1874). Downloaded fromhttp://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6755/. Charles Dickens said of Bellew, "Frank Bellew's pencil is extraordinary. He probably originated more, of a purely comic nature, than all the rest of the artistic brethren put together."
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