TY - BOOK AU - Guinan,Paul AU - Bennett,Anina TI - Boilerplate: history's mechanical marvel SN - 0810989506 (hbk.) PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Abrams Image KW - Robots KW - Fiction KW - Fantasy fiction KW - lcsh KW - Historical fiction KW - Science fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -