Containing matters to Persons or Devices Automated to perform those various Tasks, sometimes of a Benign Nature, representing the delightful Performances of wonderful Music and Dances, the pulling, transportation and otherwise Safeguarding of various Precious Metals, and Others of a Gravely serious Tone, manifested in the Unconsented imitation of Humanity itself for Purposes divers though with Most having a Tendency to be rooted, that is Originating, in the Mode of the Unethical. 

Timestamps:

E.T.A Hoffmann - "The Automata" (1814) (00:00)

Edward S. Ellis - "The Steam Man of the Prairies" (1868) (19:50)

Florence McLandburgh - "The Automaton Ear" (1876) (53:18)

Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg - "Horacio Kalibang or the Automata" (1879) (1:11:47)

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam - "Tomorrow's Eve" (1886) (1:32:17)

Bibliography:

Ferreira, Rachel Haywood. "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction." 2011

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