“The cost of this ‘first man’ is $2,000 though the makers, Messrs, Deddrick & Grass, expect to manufacture succeeding one, warranted to run a year without repairs, for $300. The same parties expect to construct on the same principle, horses, which will do the duty of ten or twelve ordinary animals of the same species. These, it is confidently believed, can be used before carriages, street cars and ploughs. The man now constructed can make his way, without difficulty, over any irregular surface whose ruts and stones are not more than nine inches below or above the level of the road.”
From—The Newberry Herald. (Newberry, S.C.), 12 Feb. 1868. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
