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Pelham Park and City Island Railroad, believed to be c. 1910 The Kearney High-Speed Railway. In 1886, the Enos Electric Company demonstrated a suspended monorail on the grounds of the Daft Electric Light Company in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey, [9] which was closer in its appearance to more modern monorails, but the most famous suspended monorail of this era was Eugen ...
The British firm Road Machines (Drayton) Ltd developed a modular-track ground-level monorail system with a 9 in (230 mm) high rail segments, 4 to 12 ft (1.2 to 3.7 m) long, running between support plates. The first system was sold in 1949 and it was used in industrial, construction and agricultural applications around the world.
The monorail is associated with the names Louis Brennan, August Scherl and Pyotr Shilovsky, who each built full-scale working prototypes during the early part of the twentieth century. A version was developed by Ernest F. Swinney, Harry Ferreira and Louis E. Swinney in the US in 1962. The gyro monorail was never developed beyond the prototype ...
Manchester Monorail, a 16-mile (26 km) SAFEGE-type monorail proposed in 1966 for Manchester, UK, to run across the city to Manchester Airport [141] [142] Preston Monorail, United Kingdom [143] Scotland. A maglev monorail system was proposed in 2009 to link Glasgow and Edinburgh, with a journey time of 18 minutes. The plan was judged to be ...
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 ...
Not to be outdone by an attraction at the 1964 World's Fair, OKC set its sights on a monorail of its own for the State Fair of Oklahoma the same year.
Hester's Horse Drawn Mono Rail on Canvey Island Passenger cars [1] Cailet Monorail by Du Croo & Brauns Tipping lorry [1] Sketch from the patent application of 1897 Hester's Horse Drawn Mono Rail on Canvey Island. The Caillet monorail was a monorail invented, patented and developed by Henry Jules Caillet at the end of the 19th century. [2]
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.