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Modern Mechanix, Sept 1931. Cast-off Shoes Make Tires for "Rough Rider" Bicycle IF YOU don't know what to do with your old shoes, here's a suggestion—make bike wheels out of them. No less a unique stunt has been performed by Marie Glory, a well-known Parisian bicycling enthusiast, as the photo…
No, not a bumpy ride. Most likely a cam similar to the "Square Wheel" rides on the swingarm and driven by the main pedal crank. This vehicle was submitted by an employee to the All-Honda Idea Contest in Japan in 1974. Source: Popular Science, Aug 1974. See other Walking Wheels at…
Source: MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED August, 1949 Truck Walks on Wheels ADMIRAL Richard E. Byrd's transport troubles in the Antarctic ten years ago started John F. Kopczynski, a student engineer, thinking: "Why can't wheels walk?" Conventional wheels merely spun and bogged down helplessly in the deep snow. Walking wheels could pull like…
Source: Popular Mechanics, April 1970. 1- SQUARE WHEELS WORK BETTER than round ones in this system for use on rough terrain- The sharp-cornered treads dig in on snow, mud, sand or steep grades, providing increased traction for trucks, tanks and other military vehicles. At the same time, ingenious self-leveling geometry…
The vehicle ПрОП-Ф (PrOP-F), designed by the Russian Mobile Vehicle Engineering Institute, was sent in a space mission to Phobos in 1989 (Kemurdjian et al., 1995). This 45 kg robot was able to move using hops, perform scientific experiments and transmit the collected data and the experiments results to the…
Taking 400-foot 15-second hops, lunar "pogo sticks" could most forward at about 20 miles an hour—much faster than the four to five miles an hour of vehicles now being considered for moon exploration. The moon leaper was devised by Dr. Howard S. Seifert, scientist at the United Technology Center at…
Patent number: 2371368 Filing date: Oct 16, 1942 Issue date: Mar 13, 1945 See full patent details here. Blurb from patent describiting capabilities and uses. This invention relates to a vehicle, and more particularly to a tank which is propelled by means of an operating leg. One Of the objects…
Source: How to Invent: M.W. Thring and E.R. Laithwaite, 1977. In the first stage of an attempt to make a powered artificial leg I analysed the essential mechanism of human walking and produced the device shown above which walks on two legs by bending the knee as the thigh begins…
A Tractor that Walks? Originally posted here on August 11, 2011 by heidrickaghistorycenter The Fageol 9-12 “Walking” Tractor, 3500lbs, 1919. Heidrick Ag History Center.Our collection here at the Heidrick Ag History Center includes this little tractor. Nestled in a line of other comparably sized tractors, you might first notice its because…
In 1824, Gompertz became a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) which later became the RSPCA. He acted for many years as the president of the society prior to resigning for reasons that may have been connected to his radical views or to…
March 15,1966 "The Torun Robot" - Torun, Poland, is famous for the Gingerbread Man and now a robot. Marian Jasnoch, a young electrical engineer has been working on this robot since 1962. The robot can answer a phone, convey a few simple sentences, record messages, nurse a baby, clean a…
TUMBLING EXPLORER, or TEX, was an early design conceived by Space General. It resembles an oyster shell and is extremely manoeuverable. It could be dropped from an unmanned spacecraft ready for action. A TV camera is contained in each panel and operates on radio command. The three illustrations above illustrate…
Copied from N55 WALKING HOUSE homesite, see here. manual for WALKING HOUSE WALKING HOUSE, Copenhagen 2008 Introduction: WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its…
USEFUL ROBOTS US Patent number: 3522859 - see here for full patent details. Filing date: Jan 22, 1968 Issue date: Aug 4, 1970 First filed in Great Britain 26 Jan 1967 Model of Centipede. The 'centipede' In the first model (Fig. 6.15(a) above) of the centipede the sprung legs were…
Source: Popular Mechanics, March 1922 Patent number: 1287643 - see full patent details here. Filing date: Dec 12, 1917 Issue date: Dec 17, 1918
Source: Popular Science, September 1922
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…
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…
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…