Corpse Eater Harness

A vehicular invention that allowed corpse eaters to pull carriages or wagons. the invention was outlawed within the year of public use.

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Function

Captured corpse eaters would be fitted with a customized leather muzzle covering their mouths. This prevents the monster from biting as well as easier steering when pulled by the reins. At the front of the muzzle, there is a slot that fits a pomade tin-sized plate. 
Corpse eaters are also fashioned with harnesses reminiscent of those used for workhorses.
Drivers would insert dead animal flesh or fresh blood into these slots. This, in turn, activates the corpse eaters' insatiable hunger as it attempts to chase down the 'flesh' and finally, will begin to pull the carriage. similar to the phrase 'carrot on a stick'.
Drivers would turn the carriage by pulling the reins connected to the corpse eater. Corpse eaters' bloodlust would make the creature unconsciously beeline in the direction of recently spilt blood or flesh. Since the closest source for these creatures is directly at their nose, they will perpetually follow that scent straight. By pulling its head in a certain direction, its allows the creature to correct its direction to the drivers need and continue chasing the phantom scent.

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History

Domestication of Corpse Eaters 

During the US Civil War, it was seen as a necessity to weaponize the abnormal beasts of the land for warfare. This included soldiers capturing wild beasts to later release at the enemy. 
One of these monsters were Corpse Eaters. They frequented battlefields at night, consuming the fallen soldiers between the two opposing armies until the sun rose. Soldiers would mistakenly capture these monsters in hopes to release against the Union, but had trouble directing their attacks. Often corpse eaters only respond to the scent of exposed blood or flesh of a living being. 
So bringing these creatures into camps in close proximities to infirmaries was a blood bath for regiments. Idiotically suicidal.

 Invention of the Harness

The idea of this contraption was devised by Nathaniel Kartwright, a Confederate veteran, who often captured and released these creatures into enemy camps and holdings. Returning to his home in Benton, Tennesse after the war the thought of these creatures never left his mind. He found their existence and behaviour fascinating to watch. how they can catch the scent of corpses and follow them in almost exact lines was unique compared to most animals and beast that exist in the country. Sparking an idea
Kartwright began crafting prototypes with the local blacksmith, designing methods and harnesses that allow anyone to drive a corpse eater much like how you'll drive a workhorse.
His first marketable iteration of the Corpse Eater harness was released in 1868. Arriving in towns with his latest invention to both demonstrate its use and to sell the product.

Controversary

Lots of hesitance plastered the residents' faces. The idea, the thought, of having to stable unhinged monsters so close to your home frightened the sane away from the invention.
The stigma of monsters in public environments was ever looming. So when Mr Kartwright rolls up to a quaint town with a wagon pulled by pale gangly creatures on all fours, it is a rather easy observation that the man is a quack.
The disturbance of their very presence hastened many lawmakers to unanimously ban the use of monsters as transportation in public places. Leading to Kartwright's decade-long business idea to be dismantled in just a year.
The harness faded into history, with only ew avid collectors searching for them in hopes to strike riches with it.

Established
1868
Dismantled
1870
Units Sold
100~ Units