Big Red Hair Robots

The most comprehensive section with more than 20 pages concerns the mechanical man known as boilerplate described as deliciously detailed by the new york.

Big red hair robots. Victorian era robots to be found in the whole world wide web. Big red hair v4 0. Meet boilerplate the 19th century robot soldier who has adventures with teddy roosevelt lawrence of arabia mark twain nikola tesla and other historical figures. We built our first homepage in 1998 then in 1999 posted a new version adorned with a distinctive head of big red hair.

Big red hair is anina bennett and. Subsequent automatons such as the electric man and the automatic man are also profiled. Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by professor archibald campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 world s columbian exposition. Many people respond by creating their own homages to our robot in forms as diverse as music prose comic books video games and sculpture.

Dive into our illustrated adventure book and discover the secret origins of frank reade in the world s first science fiction magazines. Built in a small chicago laboratory boilerplate was a prototype soldier built for preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations although it was the only such prototype boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its proposed function. Here in the time tunnel we ve archived a variety of vintage pages. History s mechanical marvel ostensibly the biography of a 19th century robot soldier is an illustrated hardcover book that deftly blends historical fiction with science fiction it dramatizes formative events at the dawn of the 20th century through tales of the robot and its inventor archibald campion who thinks his machine can prevent the deaths of men in the conflicts of.