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There was insufficient time to re-position the gyros before the monorail's public debut. The real public debut for Brennan's monorail was the Japan-British Exhibition at the White City, London in 1910. The monorail car carried 50 passengers at a time around a circular track at 20 miles per hour (32 km/h).
Brennan's Monorail Perhaps the only true monorail was the Gyro Monorail developed independently by Louis Brennan , August Scherl and Pyotr Shilovsky . This was a true single track train which used a gyroscope-based balancing system to remain upright.
Brennan's gyroscopically balanced monorail on a demonstration run. He did much work on a monorail locomotive which was kept upright by a gyrostat. In 1903 he patented a gyroscopically-balanced monorail system that he designed for military use; he successfully demonstrated the full sized system on 10 November 1909, at Gillingham, England.
A highspeed monorail using the Lartigue system was proposed in 1901 between Liverpool and Manchester. [17] In 1910, the Brennan gyroscopic monorail was considered for use to a coal mine in Alaska. [21] In June 1920, the French Patent Office published FR 503782, by Henri Coanda, on a 'Transporteur Aérien' -Air Carrier.
In 1927, Louis Brennan, funded to the tune of £12,000 (plus a £2000 per year) by John Cortauld, built a rather more successful gyrocar. Two contra-rotating gyros were housed under the front seats, spun in a horizontal plane at 3500 rpm by 24V electric motors powered from standard car batteries.
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The monorail was planned to have gyroscopic stabilization (first patented by Brennan in 1903). The proposed monorail train consisted of a motor car and a 50-seat passenger car. The travel speed was supposed to reach 150 km/h. A 12 km monorail track was constructed in 4 months, and a Saint Petersburg factory was contracted to build a train.
So Louis Brennan operated his balancing mechanism on a bench continuously for two weeks and found that the rotation of the Earth did not affect the stability of the vehicle. This seems counterintuitive. Consider a stationary, gyro stabilised monorail vehicle, sitting in a siding, pointing north south, and its mechanism working.