"Admiral Richard E. Byrd's transport troubles in the
Antarctic started John F. Kopczynski, a student engineer thinking: 'Why can't
wheels walk?'
Conventional wheels merely spun and bogged down helplessly
in the deep snow. Walking wheels could pull like the tracks on a tractor
without the great weight, awkwardness or slowness of such gear. The fact that
nobody had ever dome up with a basic improvement on the wheel since he
invention first rolled out of the Stone Age, did not keep young Kopczynkski
from plugging away at his idea for a walking wheel.
After ten years of experiments, Kopczynski, now head of the
Pivot Punch and Die Corporation at North Tonawanda, N.Y., this spring rigged up
a working model and finally showed that wheel's can walk."
- From the August 1949 issue of Mechanix Illustrated
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