Pat Rawlings’ Rendering of the “Habot” Mobile Lunar Base Concept (courtesy of John Mankins, NASA HQ, and Neville Marzwell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Mankins’ Habot John Mankins introduced the Habitat Robot concept, “Habot,” in 2000 as a radical departure from traditional lunar base studies. The strongest attribute of the Habot is its “small is beautiful” emphasis. …
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Patent number: 491927 Filing date: Apr 8, 1892 Issue date: Feb 1893. See full patent here. Rygg Horse Pat 1893, filed 1892. No model. Cannot find any evidence that it was actually built.
Brunton's Traveller was constructed by the Butterley Company in Derbyshire in 1813 by William Brunton (1777–1851). Also known as the "Steam Horse" it had a pair of mechanical legs, with feet that gripped the rails at the rear of the engine to push it forwards at about three miles an hour.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR GOLDSWORTHY GURNEY Chapter 5: INVENTING THE STEAM CARRIAGE p77 In 1824 David Gordon tried again with "an arrangement of machinery, by which an action similar to horses' feet could be obtained." Six jointed iron legs, fitted with feet, were connected by brass joints, straps, and keys to a set …
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j IMPROVEMENT IN TRACTION-ENGINES JOHN E. PRAUL Patent number: 221354 Filing date: Sep 26, 1879 Issue date: Nov 4, 1879. See patent here.