Boilerplate : history's mechanical marvel /
Guinan, Paul.
Boilerplate : history's mechanical marvel / Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. - New York : Abrams Image, 2009. - 167 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Professor Archibald Campion, an inventor's life, or, The birth of Boilerplate -- Wonder of the White City, or, The mechanical man meets the public -- Boilerplate at home and abroad, or, An automaton's adventures -- Tales of a metal doughboy, or, Boilerplate in combat -- The war to end all wars, or, Boilerplate's final battle -- Popular depictions of Boilerplate, or, The robot, remembered -- Boilerplate's brethren, or, Mechanical men of history -- Time line -- Boilerplate today.
"Meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier--not in a present-day military lab or a science fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history"--P. [4] of cover.
0810989506 (hbk.) 9780810989504 (hbk.)
2008053763
GBA969630 bnb
015326934 Uk
Robots--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
Boilerplate : history's mechanical marvel / Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. - New York : Abrams Image, 2009. - 167 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Professor Archibald Campion, an inventor's life, or, The birth of Boilerplate -- Wonder of the White City, or, The mechanical man meets the public -- Boilerplate at home and abroad, or, An automaton's adventures -- Tales of a metal doughboy, or, Boilerplate in combat -- The war to end all wars, or, Boilerplate's final battle -- Popular depictions of Boilerplate, or, The robot, remembered -- Boilerplate's brethren, or, Mechanical men of history -- Time line -- Boilerplate today.
"Meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier--not in a present-day military lab or a science fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history"--P. [4] of cover.
0810989506 (hbk.) 9780810989504 (hbk.)
2008053763
GBA969630 bnb
015326934 Uk
Robots--Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.