Gyro monorail
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gyro-monorail-175-13690147
title:
Gyro monorail
text:
The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro-stabilized monorail, or gyrocar are terms for a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel to overcome the inherent instability of balancing on top of a single rail. 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
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Single rail land vehicle
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
date created:
2006-03-18T21:15:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T08:51:08Z
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13
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