
Zadoc Dederick and Isaac Grass quietly patented this as an “improvement in steam-carriage” in 1868, but the details are pretty sensational: They’d invented a mechanical man with jointed legs who could pull a cart, lift its legs to clear obstacles, and even run backward.
The boiler is in the torso. “It is unnecessary to describe this part of the mechanism, as there is nothing peculiar in it.”

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