Walking Machines inc. Steam Man Timeline

This page contains a timeline showing significant Walking Machine events, and dates showing the creation or announcement of the contrivances.

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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
 1872 – 8-Legged Steam Walker 
 1874 – C.C. Roe's Steam Man "Adam Ironsides" (same Rowe as below)
 1874-83 – Capt Rowe's Steam Men (same Roe above)
 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
 1916 – "King Grey" the Electric Titan – Fern Pieper
 1917 – Coleman Walking Dummy
 1918 – Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
 1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man by Fern Pieper & Chas. Oehler
 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
 1930- von Bechtolsheim Walking Car
 1932 – Sam Barton Bicycle Horse
 1932-3 – Alzetta Italian Mechanical Horse
 1939 – Messmore Model Horse
 Unknown French Steam Mechanical Horse

Early Fictional Walking Machines
 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
 1901-3 – Walking Lunar Vehicle by Jerzy Zulawski
 1909c – Harry Grant Dart Walking Machines – Fiction
 1916- Pete's Steam Man – fiction
 1923 – Walking Lunar Rover by Homer Eon Flint
 

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
 1956 – CABER (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 – Stepping/Walking Machine by Katysu [Катыс] 
 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
 1980 – Crater Scraper Walking 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
 
1984-93 – Nuclear Inspection Centaur Robot – ART Project
 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
 1901-3 – Walking Lunar Vehicle by Jerzy Zulawski
 1909 – Piercy Walking Platform
 1913 – War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells (Fictional)
 1913 – Giant Mechanical Mosquito by Dr. Gustav Luchy (Concept)
"King Grey" the Electric Titan – Vern Pieper
 1918 – Jumping Ocean Liner (Concept)
 1919 – Giant Walking Iron Man
 1923 –
Walking Lunar Rover by Homer Eon Flint
 1933 – Ocean Walking Bridge (Concept)
 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
 1965c -Titan Walking Wheel Rover – Sokolov – Conceptual
 1966 – Philco "Lunar Worm" Concept
 1969 – US Steel: Walker – Syd Mead – Conceptual
 1972 -Pluton Walking Rover – Sokolov – 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
space-teleoperation-concept-x80 Miscellaneous Lunar and Off World Walker Concepts and Illustrations

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-walking
 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
Márton Cserny's Hybrid Pedal Walker

 

21st Century

 
Walking Wheels Including Rimless wheels, Tracked Wheels, Square Wheels & Misc.
 
Pedalling Robots includes pseudo-pedalling vehicles

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