Machines Like Us

Steam Man, Electric Man, Automatic Man, and the incredible Boilerplate may have been before your time, but in case you missed them, a website called "Mechanical Marvels of the Nineteenth Century" will bring you up to date. Said to be the most comprehensive collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots to be found in the whole World Wide Web, this fascinating and detailed collection of photos and memorabilia was described as "deliciously detailed" by The New York Times, "charming" by U.S. News and World Report, and declared "cool" by NASA. A delightful, back-to-the-future kind of romp.

From Mechanical Marvels of the Nineteenth Century