1770 – 8-Legged Walking Wooden Horse – Edgeworth (Irish)

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (31 May 1744 – 13 June 1817) was an Anglo-Irish politician, writer and inventor. Although most articles suggest Edgeworth invented the Caterpillar track, the description offered below is of another invention he called a Wooden Horse."   In order to step over a fence, the legs would have to be lifted quite high.  …