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Originally Posted by legonut3
Does anybody know where the idea for a mech came from? I know Gundam is pretty old and transformers is obviously an american adaptation, but where did the giant humanoid robot-warrior idea come from?
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1880 Jules Verne novel La Maison à vapeur (The Steam House) featured a steam-powered, piloted, mechanical elephant. One of the first appearances of such machines in modern literature was the tripods of H. G. Wells' famous The War of the Worlds.
Earliest I can go with how far back mechs go.