In the life of every person, discoveries always happen. Not those that he is told about, but those that he made himself. This happens when you unexpectedly look at something from the other side. And the usual puzzle of understanding suddenly does not fit into its place.
This is what happened with trams. It was still good. Once they were first built, then they began to develop, and grew to the structure that we see now.
More recently, they were:
In general, nothing special. A slightly different, rougher execution. It is determined by the existing technology at the time of manufacture. And the principle is the same.
If you look deeper into history, then suddenly the principle of obtaining a driving force changes dramatically.
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Actually, the official history claims that this is how the history of the development of the tram began.
That is, she offers a version that supposedly people, solving the transport problem, came up with a horse-drawn carriage traveling on steel rails. To do this, they set up a steel production. They stuffed sleepers with rails into the stone pavement, and horses dragged heavy metal wagons along them.
It is difficult to agree with this version. Probably worth diving deeper into history.
As it turned out, the tram existed before.
And again the principle of its structure changes dramatically.
Now he falls out of the realm of understanding altogether. There is no horse, no cable traction, no current collector, no motors or batteries, but the tram is moving!
It turns out that the progenitor of modern trams is a product of technologies that are inaccessible to modern mankind.
But this is a photograph that takes us only 150 - 170 years ago. This means that before there was something that allowed humanity to have such technologies.
In the previous article “Russia of the XIX century. after a planetary disaster. “But, there is no life. She's dead …”was a review of the works of the classics of Russian literature, which described horrific cataclysms, starting from the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Most likely, these descriptions were true.
Looking at the history of tram development, one can clearly see the degradation of technology. It turns out that people were able to take something from the previous developments, but the main potential of knowledge was lost, and they had to start everything from what was left.
Let's try to check this.
The very first assumption may be that such a cataclysm could not have limited territorial boundaries. This is confirmed by the ubiquitous sediment load in all old cities. And this is all of Siberia, the European part of Russia and all of Europe. On this occasion, alternativeists cite many convincing photos.
Offhand, I easily found a photo of this house in Omsk. One, and maybe more floors, rest underground. After the cataclysm, there was no brick production left, so the top was built with wood. And it is clear that this superstructure is not 500 or 1000 years old. Maximum 100 - 150 years, judging by the wear and tear of the wooden structure.
It makes sense to see the American continent. And then a strange coincidence comes to mind about the only war in America between the north and south. By a strange coincidence, it also happened a little over 200 years ago (1861-1865).
About the same dates as the alleged cataclysm in Russia.
Let's take a look at the maps of ancient cartographers.
Let's turn to the maps of Geghard Mercator, the founder of cartography.
This map does not have the Arctic Ocean, nor the polar cap. The whole north is green. In other words, the planet is warm and comfortable.
And here is the map of John Senex (about 1690-1740). He was mostly interested in geographical maps, in particular, he issued the so-called "road maps" of Britain. He also published celestial charts and designed the globes of the starry sky.
Here is his map. This is already the 17th century.
Something terrible has happened. The mainland North America was more than half under water. The coastline of the continent of South America moved away from Antarctica. Eurasia has also changed a lot.
Time passed, and the water subsided. The continents began to take on a modern shape.
This map is from the collection of our contemporary David Ramsay. It contains about 150,000 maps and other cartographic items. The collection was created by David Ramsay, who, after making a fortune from real estate, focused on collecting maps of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Of course, this is just a version of real events. But it fits very well into those episodic facts that, like puzzles, find their place in the understanding of what happened and why humanity began to develop so quickly.
Why, having in memory the potential of the past culture and intelligence, it is unable to recreate everything that was before the cataclysm.