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Draft of Palmer's monorail. Henry Robinson Palmer (1795–1844) was a British civil engineer who designed the world's second monorail and the first elevated railway. He is also credited as the inventor of corrugated metal roofing, still one of the world's major building materials.
In the early 1930s, New York city considered a monorail system, which would have been the first in the US. [15] In 2018 a design for a gyroscopic rail car won first place at the German Mobility Award. [16] In 2020 developers secured government funding of EUR 3.6 million to develop a prototype and it is expected testing could commence in 2022.
It used a load-bearing single rail and two lower, external rails for balance, the three carried on triangular supports. It was cheap to construct but tricky to operate. Possibly the first monorail locomotive was a 0-3-0 steam locomotive on this line. A high-speed monorail using the Lartigue system was proposed in 1901 between Liverpool and ...
During 1820, in Myachkovo, near Moscow, he built a type of monorail described as a road on pillars. [1] The single rail was made of timber balks resting above the pillars. The wheels were set on this wooden rail, while the horse-drawn carriage had a sled on its top. [1] This construction is considered to be the first known monorail in the world ...
Monorail by Ippolit V. Romanov. In March 1895, Russian engineer Ippolit Romanov (originally from Tbilisi, Georgia) built a prototype of an electric monorail in Odessa, modern-day Ukraine. In 1897, he presented a functional model of his monorail at the meeting of Russian technological society.
John Blenkinsop, [2] [3] first locomotives with rack system and rack rails; Charles Beyer, [3] designer, co-founder and manager of Beyer, Peacock & Company for many years; Louis Brennan, inventor of a monorail; Isambard Kingdom Brunel, [3] railway pioneer, construction of the Great Western Railway
Nothing came of this, either. This book shows an early use of the term "monorail" to describe the system. [22] Also the Massachusetts charter was renewed in 1888, [23] but in December of that year the first electric streetcar line in Boston was opened. [24] The experimental establishment at East Cambridge was mothballed in 1891. [25]
The Lartigue Monorail system was developed by the French engineer Charles Lartigue (1834–1907). He further developed a horse drawn monorail system, which had been invented by Henry Robinson Palmer in 1821. [1] Lartigue had seen camels in Algeria carrying heavy loads balanced in panniers on their backs. This inspired him to design a new type ...