Mr. Zadock Deddrick1, a Newark machinist, has invented a man; one that, moved by steam, will perform some of the most important functions of humanity; that will, standing upright, walk or run as he is bid, in any direction, and at almost any rate of speed, drawing after him a load whose weight would tax the strength of three draught horses.The idea seems that by making a roadable steam engine in the appearance of a man, that horses would not be unduly frightened.
Another inventor tried thirty years later, with no success.
An 1865 novel about a steam man is available at Project Gutenberg.
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