{"id":13005,"date":"2015-12-23T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenlivinghistory.com\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:18:20","slug":"is-steam-man-the-first-droid-in-history-history-buff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2015\/is-steam-man-the-first-droid-in-history-history-buff\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;Steam Man&#8221; the First Droid in History? &#8211; History Buff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over at the\u00a0Rosen-blog, Kathy Haas <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenbach.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/this-is-not-droid-youre-looking-for.html\">dives into the archives<\/a> to find what might be fiction\u2019s first droid, from an 1868 dime novel titled\u00a0<em>The Steam Man of the Prairies<\/em>. The titular \u201csteam man\u201d is described as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was about ten feet in height, measuring to the top of the \u2018stove-pipe hat,\u2019 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenbach.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/this-is-not-droid-youre-looking-for.html\">over at the source<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image via <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenbach.blogspot.com\/2015\/12\/this-is-not-droid-youre-looking-for.html\">Rosen-blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/historybuff.com\/is-steam-man-the-first-droid-in-history\/\">Is &#8220;Steam Man&#8221; the First Droid in History? &#8211; History Buff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2015\/is-steam-man-the-first-droid-in-history-history-buff\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Is &#8220;Steam Man&#8221; the First Droid in History? &#8211; History Buff\"><p>Over at the\u00a0Rosen-blog, Kathy Haas dives into the archives to find what might be fiction\u2019s first droid, from an 1868 dime novel titled\u00a0The Steam Man of the Prairies. The titular \u201csteam man\u201d is described as follows: It was about ten feet in height, measuring to the top of the \u2018stove-pipe hat,\u2019 which was fashioned after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[880],"tags":[466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77253,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/77253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}