Movie: Boilerplate, History’s Mechanical Marvel

Boilerplate, History’s Mechanical Marvel is coming to the big screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the JJ Abrams’ production company plans to make a movie based on the one year old book for Paramount Pictures.

For those unaware of Boilerplate, here is a synopsis.

Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by Professor Archibald Campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

Built in a small Chicago laboratory, Boilerplate was a prototype soldier built for “preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations”. Although it was the only such prototype, Boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its proposed function in several combat actions.

Boilerplate embarked on a series of expeditions to demonstrate its abilities, the most ambitious being a voyage to Antarctica. Boilerplate is one of history’s great ironies, a technological milestone that remains largely unknown.