Mechanical marvels of the 19th Century

“Here is the most extensive collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots to be found in the whole World Wide Web.
Read illustrated accounts of the world’s first robot, the Steam Man, created in 1865! Subsequent automatons such as the Electric Man and the Automatic Man are also profiled. The most comprehensive section, with more than 20 pages, concerns the mechanical man known as Boilerplate–described as “charming” by U.S. News and World Report (8/26/02) and declared “cool” by NASA!”