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This page will contain a timeline showing significant Walking Machine events, and dates showing the creation or announcement of the contraptions.

For the moment, it is more a list of what is going to be placed in this blog. If IMAGE IS CLICKABLE, then a blog post exists for it. Check out the updates page for the recent posts.

Early Walking Machines inc. Steam Men

 480 BC–Wooden Horse Carriage – Lu Ban – Chinese
 230 AD–Wooden Ox / Gliding Horse – Zhu-ge Liang – Chinese
1663- Cart with Legs – Potter / Hooke
 1770- 8-Legged Wooden Horse – Edgeworth
 1850–Chebyshev Walking platform – Russian
 1867 William Farr Goodwin's Mechanical Horse (pat.) 
 1867-8 Dederick & Grass Steam Man 
 1869- Winans / Eno "Steam King" Steam Man
 1870 Morrison's Steam Man & Toy
 1870-83 Capt Rowe's Steam Men 
 1872- 8-Legged Steam Walker 
 1874- C.C. Roe's Steam Man "Adam Ironsides"
 1875- W.W. Cole's Circus Steam Man
 1876- Farr Goodwin's Philadelphia Centennial Steam Men
 1877- Doyle Mechanical Horse
 1878- Davis Toy Horse
 1880- Hornburg Steam Man "Frankenstein"
 1884-1893- Prof. George Moore Steam Man

 1887 – Benson's Walking track
 1887- Walking Wagon
 1890- George R. Moore – Electric Walking Machine
 1892- Rygg Mechanical Horse (Patent)
 1893- Weston Walking Automaton     
 1894-1914- Perew Electric Man & Toy
 1894-Gross Walking Machine
 1904- Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle
 1906- Bingham Mechanical Walker
 1910- Mann Walking Manikin
 1912- Madamoiselle Claire 
 1913c- Bechtolsheim German Walking Car
 1917- Coleman Walking Dummy
 1918- Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
 1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man

 1921 – Walking Vehicles (Czecho-Slovakian)

 1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor)

 1922 – Walking Tractor by S. T. Corbitt
 1923- Bryan Walking Car

 1923 – Mávag Fiat "Mocher Wagen" 
 1923- German – Wheel-LessTruck
 1932- Sam Barton Bicycle Horse
 1932-3- Alzetta Italian Mechanical Horse
 1939- Messmore Model Horse
 Unknown French Steam Mechanical Horse

 

Early Fictional

 1830c – Steam-assisted walker (Spoof) – Robert Seymour
 1868- Ellis – Steam Man et al (Frank Reade Jr.)
 1882- Compressed-Air Horse – Fiction
 1892 – "Hockbockid" – Fiction by Bradshaw

 1892 – Electric Bob's Big Black Ostrich (Fiction) - Toombs
 1896 – Lathrop & Edison Walking Machine – Fiction
 1909c – Harry Grant Dart Walking Machines – Fiction
 1916- Pete's Steam Man – fiction

 

Other Walkers (post 1940)

 

 1940 – Walking Tank – Hutchinson and Smith
 1947-  WJ McIntyre "Blowtorch" Horse – Canada
 1951- Bogart Mechanical Horse and Cart
 1955 – TEAL (model) – Peter Holland

 1956c – "Dog-Mobile" Dog-controlled Walking Truck (Concept) – Iben Browning
 1957-60 – Shigley's Walking Machines
 1957-60 – Shigley's Walking Machines
 1960c – Maratori "Golden Horse"
 1961 – Moonwalker – Space General Corp
 1961 – Iron Mule  Train – Frank Tinsley
 1962 – GE Pedipulator - Ralph Mosher
 1965 – MoonWalker Disability Chair

 1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept

 1967 – Centipede Walking Machine by Meredith Thring

 1968 – “Mechanimal” Walking Models by Masahiro Mori and Ryuichi Tomiya

 1968 – Iron Mule Train – R.A. Morrison
 1968 – Phony Pony  - Frank / McGhee
 1969 – GE Walking Truck – Ralph Mosher
 1969-72 – Mocci, Petternella, Salinari Hexapod

 1969-71 - Waseda Pneumatic Walking robots

 1969-84 – Russian Model Walkers

 197x - Unknown Russian Bipedal Walker

 1971 – Grundmann & Seireg 3-legged Walker

 1972 - Ignatiev Hexapod

 1973? – Gurfinkel Six-legged Walker

 1976 – Hirose's KUMO-I
 1976 – Gurfinkel "Masha" Hexapod
 1976 – OSU-Hexapod - McGhee

 1977- Okhotsimski ILM 6-legged Walker

 1978 – Gurfinkel and Fomin's Walking Machine

 1978-9 – Hirose's PV-II

 1979 – Efimov 6-legged Walker

 1979 – "Meccanoids" Meccano Kit
 1980 – Kessis Hexapod

 1980 – CRAB Walking Beam Model – Peter Holland

 1981 – The Walking Gyro by John Jameson

 1982c – Scherman "Steam Man" Prototype
 1982-3- Ivan Sutherland - Walking Robot
 1983- ODEX-1 Functionoid

 1983 – Bessenov Walking Machine
 1984-7- Quadruped – Marc Raibert
 1985- OSU ASV

 1985- NMIIIA Manned Hexapod Rover Prototype

 1987 – First-Step – David Buckley

 1988 – David Buckley  "Shadow" Anthropomorphic Robot

 1988 – AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University
 1990- Iron Mule Train (revisited) – D.J. Todd 

 1992 – Dante & Dante II – Carnegie-Mellon University 

 1994 – Profi Bionic by Fischertechnik

 1996  – ROBIN Pneumatic Wall-Climbing Robot

 

Walking-Machines  - Hybrids & Tractors

 

 1813 – Brunton Steam Carriage with Legs
 1824 – Gordon Steam Carriage with Legs
 1868 – Vernol's Walking Vehicle
 1879 – Praul's Walking Steam Tractor
 1917 – Walking Tractor
 1918 – Anderson Walking Carriage

 1921 – Walking Vehicles (Czecho-Slovakian)

 1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor)

 1925 – Nilsson's Walking Tractor
 1944– Snell's Multi-Ped Walking Tractor
 1954 – Lattimore's Walking Tractor
 1982c – Thring's Walking Tractor
 1995- Russian Swamp Walkers

 1996 – Autopod Hybrid Walker
 

                
Mechanical  Elephants and Animals moved to here.

 

Gigantic Walkers

 

 1896 – Lathrop & Edison Walking Machine – Fiction
 1910 -Norris Walking Platform
 1913 – War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (Fictional)

 1913 – Giant Mechanical Mosquito by Dr. Gustav Luchy (Concept)
 1918- Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
 1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man
 1939 – First Walking Dragline
 1940– Walking SuperTank – Hutchinson and Smith
 1944 – Betelguese Walking Cities - Amazing Stories (Fictional)

 1947 – Walking Barge – Tucker
 1955- Dan Dare – Walking Tank – Fictional

 1962 – GE Pedipulator - Ralph Mosher
 1964- Ron Herron (Archigram) - Walking City

 1964 - LeTourneau Tree Stomper
 1965- Thunderbirds – Sidewinder – Fictional

 1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept
 1969- US Steel: Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
 1976-9 Komatsu "ReCUS" Walking Machine
 1976 – Russian Walking Platform – Model
 1980- AT-AT (Star Wars) – Fictional
 1982c – Scherman "Steam Man" Prototype
 1983- DRGXX – Syd Mead – Conceptual
 1984- Moon Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
 1986 – Humongous – Jim Henson / George Gibbs
 1990- AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University 
 2000 – HABOT Lunar Habitat  - Mankins
 2001 – Animaris Rhinoceros Lignatus -Theo Jansen

 2008 – Walking House by N55

 2010 – Natwalk 2.0 Walking Skyscraper – Anton Markus Pasing
 2010 – Andrew Baldwin – Walking Boat

 2012 – Walking Pod by Scott Parenteau

 

Walking Rickshaws

 

 1867-8 Dederick's Steam Man
 1869 – Winans / Eno "Steam King" Steam Man
 19xx – Meccano Rickshaw
 197x - Unknown Russian Bipedal Walker
 1977 – Russian Walking vehicle

 1981 – Honda Ideas Contest – Rickshaw
 1982 – Mechnique - "Larry" at Burning Man
 Chariot – Bob Schneeveis
 1989-95 – MIT 3D Biped with rickshaw
 2001 - Blue Rickshaw

 2002 – "Boadicea" Walking Chariot
 2007 -Ivanov's Walking Ostrich
  2007c – Mr. Wu Yulu Walking Rickshaw
  2008c – Mr. Wu Yulu Walking Rickshaw
  2009c – Childs Amusement Rickshaw
 2009c – Honda Robot Rickshaw

 

Early Lunar – Martian Walking Machines

 1961 – Sperry RAND Hybrid Moon Walker
 1961 – Sperry RAND Moon Plodder
 1961 – RCA Caterpillar Moon walker
 1961 – RCA Dumbo Moon walker
 1961 – RCA Porky Moon walker
 1961 – RCA Praying Mantis Moon walker
 1961 – Moonwalker – Space-General Corp

 1963 – "TEX" – TUMBLING EXPLORER by David W. Beck

 1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept

 1967 – Lunar Leaper by Seifert

 1971- PrOP-M Russian Mars Mini Rover
 1975- LIIIM Russian Mars explorer

 1983-7 – PrOP-F Phobos Hopping Pod
 1984 - Moon Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual

 1988 – AMBLER – Carnegie-Mellon University
 1989 – Martin-Marietta Walking Beam Mars Rover – Chun
 2000 – HABOT Lunar Habitat  - Mankins
 2002 - ESA Lunar Rover – Student Concept

 

One-Legged Powered Walking Machines

 

 Barco Rammer

 1942 – Hopping Tank by Henry Wallace

 1967 – Lunar Leaper by Seifert

 3D Hopper by Raibert

 1983-7 – PrOP-F Phobos Hopping Pod

 

 

Other Novel Powered Walking Machines

 

 Gizmo Outboard-motor assisted-walkingr
 1978 – Shulman Jogging Machine
 1988-92 – Wareham – Mechanical Animals
 1996 - Legged Scooter "Road Runner"
 2002 -  Boris Ingram's Gauteng Walking Motorbike

 2003 - Christiaan Zwanikken's Robo-Donkey
 2005 - Prototype Mondo Spider Walking Machine

 

 

Human-Powered Walking Machines

 

 1889- Rinehart Walking Machine
 1890- Yagn Walking Apparatus

 1892- Rygg Mechanical Horse (Patent)
1904- Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle
 1904 – Skorzewski Walking Apparatus

 1931 - Shoe-wheeled Bicycle

 1932- Sam Barton Bicycle Horse

 1934 – Cobb "wind-up" Lower extremity walker
 1934 – Unicycle

 1960s – Thring Exoskeleton Legs

 1974 - Square-Wheeled Bicycle

 1977 – Russian Walking vehicle
 1981- "Joggercycle" Hybrid Walking Bike
 1990 – SpringWalker
 1993 - Márton Cserny's Hybrid Pedal Walker

  2000 - Pete Beeman's "Bicycle without wheels"
  2003 – Pedal-powered Mechanical Elephant
  2010 - 8-Legged Walking Bike

  2011 - Carter Sharer's Mechanical Walking Machines

 2011 – Panterragaffe Pedal-powered Walking Machine

 2012 – "Octipes Vehiculum" by Silas Ulbrich

 

Walking Wheels

Including Rimless wheels, Tracked Wheels, Square Wheels & Misc.

 

 1814 – Gompertz Walking Wheel

 1889 - R.B. Page Walking Machine

 1900 - Diplock's Pedrail

 1904- Crosse Leg-Powered Unicycle

 1907 – Walking Wheel Carriage by Henry S. Hele-Shaw

 1917 – Fageol "Walking" wheel tractor

 1931 - Shoe-wheeled Bicycle
 1950 – Kopczynski Eliptical Wheeled Vehicle

 1952 – "Gyro Gearloose" Walking Inventions by Carl Barks

 1954 Square Walking Wheel by Albert Sfredda

 1964c – Thring's Walking Wheels Stair-climber
 1964cx – Thring's Walking Wheels Miniclimber

 1964-70 – Rotoped by Julius Mackerle

 1957 – Walking Pram

 1974 - Square-Wheeled Bicycle

 1982 Japanese Powered "Walking Wheel" Vehicle

 

 

Pedalling Robots

includes pseudo-pedalling vehicles

 

1904- Enigmarelle

 1936 – Gyro-Cycle by Hubert Townend

 1950 - Perez Gyroscopic Pedalling Unicyclist

 1951- "Joe Dynamo" 
 1988 – "Wendell" the Unicycle Rider by Garner Holt

 2005 – "Murata Boy" Robot Cyclist

 2008 – "Murata Girl" Robot Unicyclist

 2008 – "Joules"Tandem Bicycle Robot

 

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