<Li> Babbage's calculating machine ("constructed...a creature...so great were its reasoning powers that, in a second, it performed calculations of...the united labor of fifty thousand fleshy men for a year") </Li> <Li> Hot air balloon ("This terrible fowl had no head that we could perceive, but was fashioned entirely of belly, which was of a prodigious fatness and roundness, of a soft looking substance, smooth, shining and striped with various colors...in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings...and then let fall upon our heads a heavy sack which proved to be filled with sand!"') </Li>

The thousand and second tale of scheherazade edgar allan poe summary