Boilerplate parades for the President
Paul Guinan has turned in his work on the coffee-table book Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. The publisher, Abrams, has scheduled an October release. The robot celebrated by participating in the inauguration of our new President–for a new twentieth century! Huzzah!

Boilerplate and Archie Campion in a presidential political parade on Halsted Street in Chicago, 1896.