JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
Anthropomorphic images make their sudden appearances now and again in technical illustration, though they do less so when they surprise the viewer with a simultaneous endo/exo view of the “head” of such pre-vizualization robots. The image here is the view of a plan of “the Darby Blowing Engine at Ebbw [sic] Vale Ironworks” and appears in the second volume of Engineering, September 7, 1866. The engraving bears a faint resemblance to the Iron Giant, giving both an internal and external view of the workings of the head. Anyway, that’s what I see in it…
