An Addition to the Series on Early Mechanical People

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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

Robot-Man, 1915

An Acrobatic Non-Semi-Robot, 1876

An Edenless World: the First (?) Metalic Woman Robot

Robot Roundup

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."