Crestadoro improved the design of an unusual device called the Impulsoria, which was a mobile treadmill-powered locomotive.
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His ideas also included a metallic balloon, reform of the tax system, and improvements to a railway locomotive – the Impulsoria – that was powered by four horses on a treadmill.
An Italian Professor of Philosophy, Dr Andrea Crestadoro, improved the design of this unusual device (and later took out patents in 1852).