1868 – Walking Vehicle – R. C. Vernol (American)
Patent number: 74176 Issue date: 1868 see here.
Category: Walking Machines
1923 – Wheel-less Truck – (German)
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1923 – Walking Car – James William Bryan (American)
Indianapolis Star 12 Feb AUTOMOBILE WITH LEGS INSTEAD OF WHEELS INVENTED WASHINGTON. Feb. 11.- Invention of an automobile equipped with four legs instead of wheels is claimed by James William Bryan, a Washington man. who says he has forty patents, some of them basic, for such a machine. He has designed a five-passenger clutchless, gearless, …
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1917 – Walking Tractor – (Unknown) (American)
Popular Mechanics October 1917 p520-1 In plowing and cultivating, a well-trained, intelligent train of horses means much to a farmer. Therefore it is not surprising that many agriculturists are slow in accepting the tractor, with its clumsy wheels and grinding motor, for such work. For these reluctant ruralists, however, a new kind of machine has …
1917 – Coleman’s Walking Dummy – Harry Coleman (British/American)
Patent number: 1221970 . See full patent details here. Filing date: Feb 20, 1917 Issue date: Apr 10, 1917 Fort Wayne News 01 May 1917 p6 THE WALKING DOLLS. Harry Coleman of New Palace to Make Them a Fad. Harry Coleman's convict clad walking doll is going to have a lot of sisters and brothers …
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