Over at the Rosen-blog, Kathy Haas dives into the archives to find what might be fiction’s first droid, from an 1868 dime novel titled The Steam Man of the Prairies. The titular “steam man” is described as follows:
It was about ten feet in height, measuring to the top of the ‘stove-pipe hat,’ which was fashioned after the common order of felt coverings, with a broad brim, all painted a shiny black. The face was made of iron, painted a black color, with a pair of fearful eves, and a tremendous grinning mouth. A whistle-like contrivance was trade to answer for the nose. The steam chest proper and boiler, were where the chest in a human being is generally supposed to be, extending also into a large knapsack arrangement over the shoulders and back.
Read the rest over at the source.
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