Gyro monorail
Giromonorraíl
- Date
- 1903-1909 · confidence medium
- Place
- Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Louis Brennan
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A monorail vehicle balanced by one or two spinning gyroscopes instead of a second rail, developed by Irish engineer Louis Brennan and demonstrated in a full-scale prototype at Gillingham.
What it led to
- Other gyroscopic prototypes (Scherl, Shilovsky)
- Advances in gyroscopic vehicle control
- Conceptual precedent for active stabilization systems