The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-30
IA Extraordinary Invention-A
Steam Man.

The following story Of remarkable me-
chanical invention is told by the Newark
On. j Adoert5ser
Mr.. Zadoch Deddrick, Newark ma
chinist, hes invented 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 ct almost
any rate of speed, drawing after him
load whose weight would tax the strength
or three stout draught horses. The his
tory of this curious invention is as follows !:
Six years ago Mr.. Deddrick, the inventor,
who is at present but twenty 1.-TWO years Of
age, conceived the idea of constructing
man that should receive its vitality from
a perpetual motion machine. The idea
was based OF the well known mechanical
principal that If heavy weight be placed
at the top of an upright slightly inclined
from a vertical, gravitation will tend to
produce HORIZONTAL as we'll 50 vertical
motion. The project was not successful.
However, by observing carefully the cause
Of the failure, preserving and perfecting
in the place of the perpetual motion ma
chine, the present success was attained.
The man stands seven feet and nine
inches high, the other dimensions Of the
body being correctly proportional, making
him second Daniel Lambert, by which
name heis facetiousiy spoken Of among the
workmen. He weighs FIVE hundred pounds
Steam is generated in the body or trunk,
which is nothing but :hree-horss power
engine ike that used in our fire engines
The legs which support 1t are complicated
and wonderful. The steps are taken very
naturally and quite easily. As the body is
thrown forward upon the advanced foot
the other is lifted from the ground by a
spring and thrown forward by the steam.
Each step Or pace advances the body two
feet, and every revolution Of the engine
produces four PAGES. As the engine is ca
pabie of making more than a thousad rev.
olutious minute, it would get over the
ground, On this calculation, at the rate Of
little more than mile minute. As this
would De working the legs faster than
would be safe on uneven ground, OR on
Broad street cobble stones, it is proposed
to run the engine at the rate of five hun
dred revolutions per minute, which would
walk the man at the modest speed Of half
g mile minute.
The fellow is attached to common
Rockaway carriage, the shafts OF which
serve to support him N vertical position.
These shafts are two bars Of iron, fastened
in the usual manner 10 the front of the
carriage, and ara curved so as to be joined
to circular sustaining bar, which passes
around the waist like girth, and in which
the man moves SO as to face il any direc-
| ton. Besides these motions, machinery
has been arranged by which the figure can
| be thrown backward or forward from a
| vertical nesrly fortyfve degrees. This is
| done in order to enable it to ascend or de-
scend all grades. To the soles Of the feet
| spikes or corks are fixed which effectually
prevent slipping. 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
throw 1t down. In order to enable it to
stop quickly, it is provided with two ap
| pliances, one of which will, as before
stated, throw it backward from the YER
teal, while the other bends the knees in
a direction opposite to the natural posi-
ton.
An upright post, which is arranged in
front of the dashboard, and within easy
reach of the front seats, sustairs two min
nature pilot wheels, by the turning O
which these various motions and evolu
tons are directed. 1t is expected that q
sufficiently large amount of coal can bs
slowed away under the back seat of til,
carriage to work the engine for day, ani
enough wafer III d tauK u0Q6f the iron
seat to last half day..
In order to prevent the giant" from
frightening horses by its wonderful ap
pearance, Mr.. Deddrick intends to cloth,
| it and give it as nearly as possible like
ness to the rest of humanity. The boile
and such parts as are unnecessarily heatet
will be encased il felt or wooden under
garments. Pantaloons, coat and vest of tn
latest styles are provided. Whenever tn
fires need coaliDg, which is every two o
three hours, the driver stops the machine
deecends from his seat, unbuttons Dan
iel's vest, opens q door, shovels in tn