GB Patent: GB-181,403,817
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| Improvements on the Steam Engine and Applying to the Propelling of Carriages
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Patentee:
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| Thomas Tindall (exact or similar names) - Scarborough, York County, England |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 18, 1814 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| From Lymann Weeks, The History of the Automobile and Its Inventors: "A steam engine was patented, in 1814, by Thomas Tindall, of Scarborough. The inventor proposed to use this for an infinitude of purposes, such as driving carriages for the conveyance of passengers, ploughing land, mowing grass and corn, or working thrashing machines. The carriage had three wheels, one for steering. The steam engine drove, by spur gearing, four legs, which, pushing against the ground, moved the carriage. The engine could also be made to act upon the two hind wheels for ascending hills, or for drawing heavy loads. A windmill, driven partly by the action of the wind, and partly by the exhaust steam from the engine, was used as adjunct power."
This leg-powered vehicle was not an original idea: see patent GB-181,303,700 issued the previous year to William Brunton. |
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