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Early Robots as Explosive Anthropomorphs

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I have been collecting images of mechanical men/robots pre-singularity antiquarian-quaint displays of advanced technical humans. This is an unusual one that may or may not fit this, though there is a suggestion of MassiveMan in the gigantic metallic fist, which is supposed to show a successful combat of people over nature via the advancing bliss of explosives. I'd just like to post this here before I lose it...

Which is a detail from St. Nicholas magazine, 1911:

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