FeòragMar 5, 2024

Return of the Gyroscopic Monorail

Back at the very start of the 20th century, several inventors were working on monorails that stayed upright by using gyroscopes. It's taken nearly 120 years, but a new gyroscopic monorail is being developed in Germany.

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Return of the Gyroscopic Monorail

Back at the very start of the 20th century, several inventors were working on monorails that stayed upright by using gyroscopes. It’s taken nearly 120 years, but a new gyroscopic monorail is …

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Show threadHelge WilkerMar 5, 2024
@feorag I am currently re-reading Jasper Fforde‘s „Shades of Grey“ (in preparation for its new follow-up „Red Side Story“) and was delighted to find that people in that world travel by gyroscopic monorail as well, since railways with a conventional two-rail track have been forbidden sometime in the past in one of the „Leapbacks“ their society uses in order to remove complicated objects and inconvenient facts from their lives.
Show threadroot42
@hmwilker @feorag I was reminded of exactly that! They also make an appearance in Red Side Story.
Mar 5, 2024 at 2:14pmWeb