
A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885).Olympia in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, based on the Hoffmann story (1881).Ellis' The Steam Man of the Prairies (1865) A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S.Artificial human-like being created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).Olimpia, automaton who captivates the hero Nathanael so much he wishes to marry her in E.Talus, "iron man" who mechanically helps Arthegall dispense justice in The Faerie Queene, the epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590.


From 600 BC onward, legends of talking bronze and clay statues coming to life have been a regular occurrence in the works of classical authors such as Homer, Plato, Pindar, Tacitus, and Pliny.The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala ( prehistoric folklore).See also: Robots in literature 19th century and earlier
