The wooden ox (木牛流馬，lit. wooden ox flowing horse) was created by Zhuge Liang while he served Shu-Han. It was a thought to be either
- a mechanical, walking replica of an ox whose main purpose was to carry supplies such as grain to an army that was running low on supplies
or
- a sort of wheelbarrow that had 2 booms on which it was pulled (this was later reversed with the "gliding horse").
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“In the graveyard, which was crowded with graves, and overrun with weeds, I noticed an inscription in Indian, painted on a wooden grave-board. There was a large wooden cross on the island.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)