1922 – Walking Tractor – S. T. Corbitt (American)
Source: Popular Mechanics, March 1922 Patent number: 1287643 – see full patent details here. Filing date: Dec 12, 1917 Issue date: Dec 17, 1918
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1922 – Mechanical Ox (Walking Tractor) – (American)
Source: Popular Science, September 1922
1921 – Walking Vehicles – Václav ZboÅ™il (Czecho-Slovakian)
Caption: Two Small Models Which were Built to Demonstrate the Operation of the Walking Legs That Took the Place of Driving Wheels Source: Popular Science Monthly, Aug 1921 "WALKING" MOTOR CAR TRAVELS SLIPPERY ROADS A true nonskidding motor car has been evolved by a Czecho-Slovakian inventor in which the driving members are feet and legs …
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2012 – Walking Pod – Scott Parenteau (American)
Original article copied from Core77 here. Burning Man: Walking Pod, Mechanical Beest Vehicle Posted by Jessica Charlesworth | 13 Sep 2012 | Comments (2) Meet Scott, a commercial welder who by day runs his own sheet metal fabricating business in Sacramento with 3 other colleagues, and by night, he constructs metal geodesic dome mutant vehicles …
2012 – “Octipes Vehiculum” Human Powered Walking Machine – Silas Ulbrich (German)
Text from Video Clip: Octipes Vehiculum is an 8-legged walking machine which I built for my studies in mechanical engieneering in 2012 at my university (Fachhochschule Stralsund, Germany). It is muscle-powered, driven by a pedal movement. I was inspired by the strandbeesten of Theo Jansen (www.strandbeest.com). Unfortunately the vehicle isn`t able to walk under full …
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