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Chapter first. Gyroscopic mobile platforms - the transport of the future
Such headlines appear on the web from time to time, followed by the text:
Engineering thought when creating future prototypes sometimes goes so far as to be amazed. But what the developers from the Dahir Insaat company recently presented, we meet for the first time. Meet tall transport platforms balanced by gyroscopes.
What can I say? From such a statement, I am straight defenseless like a tank in a fog. From such announcements I directly see these two Frankinstein eyes sitting at the table with the motto "when I eat, I am deaf and dumb, cunning and fast and devilishly smart." Well done engineers, they just warmed the soul that the so-called fantastic genre and hitherto never existed was brought to life. Is it true or not? Of course the second. After all, hygroscopic transport is a technology of the past.
A lot of transport was invented on gyroscopes. For example cars:
Promotional video:
Even on one wheel:
There were tractors:
There were also trains.
In 1911, a 160 km single-rail road was under construction in Alaska. History is silent about the fate of this project. But the "Krasnaya Gazeta" dated April 15, 1921 reports: "The Presidium of the Supreme Council for National Economy discussed the issue of building a single-rail gyroscopic railway. It was decided to use the now inactive former tsarist branch Petrograd - Detskoe Selo - Aleksandrovka. The Putilov Plant is already producing the frame and body of a two-car train. A test train was planned in a year. It is designed for 150 versts per hour. This speed was not yet available for double-rail roads. " The author of the project of this train was Pyotr Petrovich Shilovsky.
It is clear that the projects of the past brought to life are not as cumbersome as those announced today. But all these are technologies of past centuries, where instead of announcements they invented. Moreover, not only private companies, but also ordinary people could afford invention. That is impossible today in the capitalist World for a number of reasons. There is no working studio at home with the machines that our grandfathers had. Expensive material. There is no time, and no practical knowledge, which was a hundred years ago. Secondly, the announced platforms of the future, which allegedly did not exist in the past in this very format … but what do we know about the past, say, a hundred years ago? We will only find out about this, because no matter how the manual “it was necessary to study at school” sounds, there is nothing truthful in the school curriculum. And what was a little over a hundred years ago and generally covered with fog.
But consider this unit as well:
According to the official legend:
In 1891, the American inventor Eben Moody Boynton proposed - and even built a single-rail steam locomotive, anticipating the gyroscopic designs of the early 20th century. His steam locomotive had three wheels in line: one huge 230 cm leader and two small ones under the cockpit. The cabin itself was two-story and very narrow. For the steam locomotive, she also built a double-deck car with four wheels in line. The width of the locomotive and carriage did not exceed one and a half meters.
That is, in the late 1800s such a monster was built. Well, or, to joke, wrestled from the giants. How much do we know about this monorail steam locomotive? Of course not. And the more you try to learn about the past not from school textbooks, the more curlers twist on your head.
And lastly, Holman's Locomotive:
The Holman locomotive, built in 1887, differs from conventional locomotives by having as many as three stories of wheels that drove each other.
Chapter two. Scourge Pneumatic Tube
Also gorgeous greetings from guests from the past. The official funny legend says:
Beach's pneumatic tube was the name of the first attempt to build a subway in New York. Structurally, it was something that has no analogues today - a tunnel less than 100 meters long, in which the cars were moving under the influence of air pressure, forced by special gigantic installations. The system lasted from 1870 to 1873 and was slow, loud, and expensive. Alfred Beach was unable to find money to continue development and soon New York acquired a more traditional subway.
And few historians will pay attention to this brickwork. We don’t lay this down today, because under all the cities of Russia, in so-called Ukraine, in so-called Russia, in so-called Belarus - these tunnels stretch for kilometers!
But this is already a serious presentation to official science. After all, the past brick, in comparison with the modern one-time, is eternal. Tunnels were dug across all continents, bricking them according to the same principle. And these technologies were common. That is, we are absolutely not told the truth, which was even that a hundred years ago.
Chapter three. A motorcycle with spherical wheels can move in any direction
As we discussed in the first episode, all the technologies of the past are filmed by Hollywood as fantasy, and then it is presented to us again with innovations and technologies of the future, as it was with the unicycle and gyroscope, with ball tanks and flying cars.
For example, this motorcycle with spherical wheels:
And further in the publication, the tone we know:
The idea of spherical wheels and spherical suspension will probably sound familiar to you. This is because you might have seen it before in sci-fi movies, in particular, in the movie "I, Robot", in which Will Smith did absolutely incomprehensible tricks on the beautiful Audi RSQ. The incredible possibilities of the spherical suspension, not limited to one axis of motion, excite more than one research and design mind.
And few people will remember that such announcements of the transport of the future were already in the past. For example, in the September 1935 issue of Popular Science, a car with spherical wheels was announced:
But, do we see it on the roads? That is, we are stupidly bred, that we are, they say, developing and are already so developed that here … and even schoolchildren will fly on a school expedition to the moon and even to Mars. That is, do not be distracted by anything, everything is going as it should, go to the elections that were introduced by the most honest Gorbachev, and he would not introduce nonsense, because he has a straight brand glistening on the bald head of a noble man. Go to work, work for your uncle, make every effort so that the authorities feast and fatten, and you, like a squirrel in a wheel, did not make ends meet. You will be rewarded with this, they say, in retirement. And do not pay attention to the fact that modern pensioners are left to their own devices.
And in the end - just like in 1935, the announcements remained announcements, and today. But before the 17th year, most of the projects were completed, successful not successful, but prototypes were created. What is still embarrassing is that until the 17th year, that is, until the last reformatting of the entire planet, both a shoemaker, a lawyer, and youngsters could afford these inventions. A little after the 17th year, this tendency was, but more and more disappeared and did not, until we reached the present day, where we are not surrounded by the World, but a substitute for it, and we are deprived of the knowledge of how to do without its lies. Today, all inventions are exclusively under the capitalists. So I'm wondering if I create a vehicle on different principles in my garage, will they allow me to move from region to region on it?
By the way about successful inventions after the 17th year:
It's Rotoped
Czech inventor Julius Mackerle was working on his own unusual experimental car, which did not move, but walked like a person. The technique was intended for movement over rough terrain. The unusual wheels of this technique use gravity rather than friction to drive. The wheels were driven by compressed air. The most amazing thing is that this self-propelled vehicle could even move sideways and rotate around its own axis.
And this invention before the 17th year:
Forget chains, axles and traditional motors. In 1900, 18-year-old (in our time, he had just finished 9 classes) Ferdinand Porsche introduced the Mixte hybrid car, which was equipped with electric motors in addition to the traditional power unit. Electric power units were installed on the wheel hubs. Subsequently, the engineer presented several versions of the hybrid car, both with two electric motors and with four. It is noteworthy that this technology reappeared only 60 years later, when NASA equipped the wheels of the lunar rover with similar electric motors. passing off technologies of the past as innovations of technologies of the future.
Speaking of science fiction films.
Isn't this parking lot advertised to us as for the future?
And in conclusion, I propose to look at a variety of wheels of the past, and we will meet with you in the next part, where we will talk about modern flying cars, which were invented as the transport of the future, but in fact this is all transport from the past.