The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-01-30
All Extraordinary Envention--A
Steam Man.

Ihe following story Of a remark
able mechanical invention is told by
the Newark N. J.,) Adgertiser:
"lIr. Zadock Leddrick, a Newark
machinist, has invented man one
that, moved by steam, will perform
some Of the most important func-
tions Of humanity that Will, stand
ing upright, walk or run. as he is
bid,-in any direction at almost any
rate of speed, drawing after him a
load whose weight would tax the
strength fthree stout draught hor-
ses. The his4ory Of this curious in
vention is as follows: Six years ago,
Mr.. DcddriclS, the inventor, who is
at present but twenty-five years cf
age, conceived the novel idea of
constructing a man that should re
ceive its vitality from q perpetual
motion machine The idea was ba
sed on the well-known mechanical
principle that if a heavy weight be
placed at the top ofan upright slight
ly inclined from vertical, grayita-
ton will tend to produce horizon.
tai as well as a vertical motion The
project was not successful. How
ever, by observing carefully the
cause of the failure, preserving and
perfecting the man-form, and By sub
stitutlng steam in place Of the per
petual motion machine, the present
success was attained.
1.-The man stands seven feet and
nine inches high, the other dimen
sions Of the body being correctly
proportioned, making hin. q second
Daniel Lambert, by which name he
is facetioisly spoken OF among the
workmen. He weighs five hundred
pounds. Steam is generated in the
body or trunk, which is nothing but
a three horse power engine, like
those used in our steam fire engines.
The legs which support it are com
plicated and wonderful. The steps
are taken very naturally and quite
easily. AS the body is thrown for
ward upon the advanced foot, the
other is lifted from the ground by a
spring and thrown forward by the
steam. Each step rpace advances
the body two feet, and each revolu
ton of the engine produces four
PAGES. As the engine is capable Of
making more than one thousand
revolutions minute. it would get
over the ground, on this calculation,
at the rate Of q little more then a
mile q minute. AS this would be
working the legs faster than would
be safe. on uneven ground, or on
Broad street cobble stones, it is pro-
posed to run the rate OF five hundred
revolutions per minute, which would
walk the man at the modest speed OF
half a mile q minute
''Ike fellow is attached to a com
mon Rookaway carriage, the shafts
of which serve to support him in a
vertical position. These shafts are
two bars Of iron, fastened in the
usual manner to the front Of the
carriage. and are curved so rs to be
joined to circular sustaining bar,
which passes around the waist, and
in which the man moves so as to
face in any direction. Besides these
motions, machinery has been ar
radged by which the figure can be
thrown backward CT forward from a
vertical nearls forty degrees.
This is done to enable it to ascend
Or descend al grades. To the
soles of the feet spikes or corks are
fixed which etfectually prevent slip
ping. The whole affair is SO firmly
sustained by the shafts and has SO
excellent foothold that two men
are unable to push it over, or in any
way to throw it down. In order to
enable it to stop quickly, it is pro-
vided with two appliances, one OF
which will, as before stated, throw
it backward from the vertical, while
the other bends the knees in di-
rection opposite to the natural di-
rection.
San upright post, which is ar
ranged in front Of the dash board
and within easy reach of the front