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Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel (2009)

by Paul Guinan(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0810989506 (ISBN13: 9780810989504)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

review 1: This spot-on "history" book details the careers of inventor Archibald Campion and the robot he created in 1893. Campion's Mechanical Marvel (later dubbed "Boilerplate") was invented for the purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflict of nations". As Archie tried to demonstrate Boilerplate's usefulness in dangerous situations, the pair ended up in just about every conflict of the period from the Boxer Rebellion to the Spanish-American War and met such luminaries as Lawrence of Arabia, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jack Pershing.Guinan and Bennett manage a deadpan delivery in the text and the illustrations (stereopticons, cartoons, maps, paintings, and photos) This is a good capsule history of U.S. intervention into other nations from the Victorian Era to WWI...with a ... morebonus robot.
review 2: Originally created by artist Paul Guinan and featured on a website, Boilerplate was intended for comics but instead wound up as the subject of an illustrated history of the mechanical marvel’s fictional exploits. Using a 12-inch articulated model of this 19th century robot, Guinan and his wife Anina Bennett photoshopped the character into a variety of historical settings. Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel is a faux-history book that is dying to be turned into a faux-documentary. less

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