Extract from Chapter V;-
73. Another ingenious application of the gyroscope
to a monorail car has lately (Feb., 1914) been made
by Monsieur Schilowsky, a Russian inventor.....
So far as experiments have gone at present the weight
of the gyroscope is designed to be something between
1/10th and 1/25th of the whole weight of the car,
while the two pendulums together are about 1/3rd of the
weight of the gyroscope.
The author is indebted to M. Schilosky both for the
diagrams and the photograph from which plate IV has
been made. A model of the car has been presented by
the inventor to the Science Museum at South Kensington
and can be viewed by the public at anytime. An article
on this monorail is to be found in the issue of
The Engineer for January 23, 1914.
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