"A horse of steel runs across fields.
A mechanical horse that trots and gallops on steel pipe legs, under the impulse of a petrol engine, is the recent product of an Italian inventor. With this horse, he declares, children may be trained to ride. The iron Dobbin is said to canter along a road or across a rough field with equal ease. Its design recalls the attempts of inventors, before the days of the automobile, to imitate nature and produce a mechanical steed capable of drawing a wagon."
(Source: popular science magazine 1933)
A mechanical horse that trots and gallops on steel pipe legs, under the impulse of a petrol engine, is the recent product of an Italian inventor. With this horse, he declares, children may be trained to ride. The iron Dobbin is said to canter along a road or across a rough field with equal ease. Its design recalls the attempts of inventors, before the days of the automobile, to imitate nature and produce a mechanical steed capable of drawing a wagon."
(Source: popular science magazine 1933)
Iron Dobbin 1933 (mechanical horse powered by a petrol engine)
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