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Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. [1] [2] The first novel, Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, an imitation of Edward Ellis's The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine Boys of New York, February 28 through April 24, 1876. [3]
The first novel starts when Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle—a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"—encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenaged boy, who uses the steam-man to carry him in a carriage on various adventures.
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author. [1] [2]Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles [3] that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names.
The Steam Man of the Prairies, Edward S. Ellis' mechanical man powered by steam (1868). Olympia in Act I of Jacques Offenbach 's The Tales of Hoffmann , based on the Hoffmann story (1881) A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens ' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
This is a photograph of the Steam Man, a steam-powered vehicle invented by American inventors Zadoc P. Dederick and Isaac Grass. Zadoc P. Dederick was an American inventor. Along with Isaac Grass he was the creator of a steam-powered humanlike robot designed to pull a cart. [ 1 ]
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The book depicts children feeling various emotions. [2] Each page has several small pictures, sometimes as many as twenty a page, to describe the emotions visually. [3] Some illustrations are captioned. [1] Two birds comment on the feelings depicted on each page. [2] [4]
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