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First recorded in 1885–90

There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sounds are less mechanical and more lush, more concert hall than dance floor.
Is Bigger Better for St. Vincent?|David Yaffe|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Crowd labor platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk operate with few rules and little protection for workers.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild|Kevin Zawacki|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession|Pauline Kael|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The approach of these mechanical monsters opens up vistas thronged with shadowy forebodings.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Every drop of his brave spirit had been squeezed out of him, and he stood the mere pulp and rind of his former self.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Go carefully over the film with an oil-immersion lens, using a mechanical stage if available.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The door to the back room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe