This concept was back in 1910, and there was even a full-sized working train. It was unfortunately scrapped due to the requirements for each and every train car to rely on a series of gyros.
Invented in 1910 and still waiting for it to arrive The Gyro only needs to be powered once every 30 minutes to keep level so every stop gives it some spin that lasts between stops. No need for internal power to keep it level. What a fantastic view of the future that never materialized.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. No, that's not quite right. The Gyro Monorail required power to operate the pair of powered gyros to remain level. *It had enough reserve battery power to remain level for 30 minutes, which provides ample time to deploy the stabilizing legs.* The project failed because investors were nervous about stability and cost concerns.
@@Redstreblo420 Also, a monorail force EVERY car to have a gyro inside, not just the engine. This means that the train became more complex and inefficient. So is not greed over common good. They just used the KISS principle.
@@camofpv Not really, more common sense. While being able to negotiate tighter corners and potentially being cheaper to build, it also requires powered gyroscopes in pretty every carriage, as well as needing to build support frames at every station and in every siding to keep idle carriages and wagons upright. What would happen if those gyroscope systems were to break in transit? Since two-railed trains were already everywhere at the time (and are now), there aren't really any advantages that justify replacing a perfectly adequate and mechanically much simpler system.
Louis Brennan was totally ahead of his time! A hundred years later, now we're appreciating his invention - companies like BMW are using his concept in their modern-day bikes. My man deserved the best.
The German overhead monorail that was also about early 1900's made, and is still running today. Now obviously the biggest cost to a railway system like this, is the massively high infrastructure required to suspend the train cars, over the roads below. No gyros are needed though. How about the same idea but the overhead rail is much lower, in fact, where the train and its cars run, is in an open continuous ditch, not a tunnel, so that there only small pylons that poke outside the ditch and suspend the train. This could be done on existing railway lines, ie replacing the existing system, and would permit faster trains to run, as they would automatically lean into corners. Furthermore, there could be special ditch running tractors that run inside the ditch to clear away debris and snow, before the train runs. Thus also a less intrusive, quieter, train system could be developed , whereby the banks of the ditch would be planted and green. Faster leaning trains and low operating costs and low cost maintenance, with less stoppages could be achieved by correct design! Just a thought, from a retired mechanical engineer!
I think the biggest reason this never became reality is that every car needs a gyroscope to stay upright. Current train cars are just slabs with wheels on them hooked together, you can't beat that simplicity
Cool! a Model of the Brennan Monorail from 1910! There were also Gyroscopic driven Buses, I think in the 60's(?) which had the somewhat 6t heavy Gyro spin up to a astronomically high Number of Revolutions and then could drive with that energy for some Kilometers before needing a Busstop with overhead Power to spin it up again.... If I'm informed correctly, there are still some of these in use somewhere in Africa...
11 Years later and I still find it so impressive, Gyroscopes are such a wonderful invention, why did we just abandoned them like that intead of embracing their use?!
Gyroscopes have been used for centuries and are very common. However, the size of gyro required for a full size monorail would be terrifying. Imagine sitting in monorail cart with a high speed spinning disk weighing a few thousand pounds nearby. If it broke loose, not much would be able to stop it.
Any one know about references for design of monorail rails (especially profiles to be chosen) and wheel profile design to minimize friction. It appears that using cylindrical rails and convex wheel profiles will create noise and point loads. conventional rail and rail wheelset have a line contact under normal conditions with coning angle to ensure centering. Are there similar design considerations for monorail wheelset and railset design
I thought traditional wheelsets were conical so not sure they would suit a mono-rail application. I do get you point about contact points and friction though 😊
This could be a real train in XXth century. So exciting! I hope the technology will be revised some day and use some small antigravity mechanisms instead of those huge and rapidly-rotating gyro-rotors inside the carriage. 👍👍👍
Nice looking rail system you made . Does this use one or two gyroscopes ? I understand someone made plans for these for a Japanese railroading magazine " was that you ? " and AkubilR wrote the articles . Is there an english language version ? I haven't been able to find it over here in America .
Nice, a model gyro monorail! It's fascinating to think that Louis Phillip Brennan patented this concept well over a century ago, in 1903.
Weird huh
I feel like nothing truly unique has been made since the 60's
@@bow_wow_wowFusion reactors? We got one in the works
even weirder to think they had full scale models that worked
@@Ben-mw9vzcall me when it really work...
This concept was back in 1910, and there was even a full-sized working train. It was unfortunately scrapped due to the requirements for each and every train car to rely on a series of gyros.
Посчитали, что дешевле и лучше использовать два рельса, чем обслуживать гироскоп и тратить на его раскрутку энергию.
@@A1ien62 Why do you reply in Russian if the original comment was in English?
@@AnimatorJuusozKarena tidak semua orang bisa menggunakan bahasa Inggris
@@AnimatorJuusozпотому, что UA-cam даёт возможность перевести с любого языка одним нажатием пальца под комментарием.
@@AnimatorJuusoz Use Google translate. 🤡
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Invented in 1910 and still waiting for it to arrive
The Gyro only needs to be powered once every 30 minutes to keep level so every stop gives it some spin that lasts between stops. No need for internal power to keep it level. What a fantastic view of the future that never materialized.
sad really. greed over common good
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. No, that's not quite right. The Gyro Monorail required power to operate the pair of powered gyros to remain level. *It had enough reserve battery power to remain level for 30 minutes, which provides ample time to deploy the stabilizing legs.*
The project failed because investors were nervous about stability and cost concerns.
but that was like 1910? im sure we got better technology now@@Redstreblo420
@@Redstreblo420 Also, a monorail force EVERY car to have a gyro inside, not just the engine. This means that the train became more complex and inefficient.
So is not greed over common good. They just used the KISS principle.
@@camofpv Not really, more common sense. While being able to negotiate tighter corners and potentially being cheaper to build, it also requires powered gyroscopes in pretty every carriage, as well as needing to build support frames at every station and in every siding to keep idle carriages and wagons upright. What would happen if those gyroscope systems were to break in transit? Since two-railed trains were already everywhere at the time (and are now), there aren't really any advantages that justify replacing a perfectly adequate and mechanically much simpler system.
自然と振り子式も実現できているようで素晴らしい！
Shut up Chinese no one loves you
確かに自然式振り子()
すっげええ 大学入ったらこういうのしよう
Wait... In Japan universities is a little bit useless too?
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Couldn’t agree more!
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So fascinating to see a gyro toy train. Wish the tracks were long enough for a more excitement.
Including stops
Even over a decade later, this is possibly the coolest Brennan Monorail recreation I’ve ever seen.
That train sounds like it's anxious for a drag strip to really groove.
おお、凄い‼写真でしか見たことない列車が模型になってるΣ(゜Д゜)凄い‼
The spin-up of the gyro sounds like a real electric train starting up! :D
excellent model and example, thank you for sharing!
This is so darn cool. I read about it but this is my first time seeing a functional model.
Can't believe how stable it is in the turns. This is amazing.
Louis Brennan was totally ahead of his time! A hundred years later, now we're appreciating his invention - companies like BMW are using his concept in their modern-day bikes. My man deserved the best.
really a neat model!!! I've never seen one before. Thanks
This is beyond fantastic. I am also making DIY trains, but not as genius as this one.
This is GLORIOUS!
The German overhead monorail that was also about early 1900's made, and is still running today. Now obviously the biggest cost to a railway system like this, is the massively high infrastructure required to suspend the train cars, over the roads below. No gyros are needed though. How about the same idea but the overhead rail is much lower, in fact, where the train and its cars run, is in an open continuous ditch, not a tunnel, so that there only small pylons that poke outside the ditch and suspend the train. This could be done on existing railway lines, ie replacing the existing system, and would permit faster trains to run, as they would automatically lean into corners. Furthermore, there could be special ditch running tractors that run inside the ditch to clear away debris and snow, before the train runs. Thus also a less intrusive, quieter, train system could be developed , whereby the banks of the ditch would be planted and green.
Faster leaning trains and low operating costs and low cost maintenance, with less stoppages could be achieved by correct design! Just a thought, from a retired mechanical engineer!
Anyone else getting this recommended randomly after 11 years
ギョロモノレール？→ウィーン→あ、ジャイロか！
This video perfectly demonstrates the inherent problems and limitations with the concept.
Great model, brilliant!
I love Christmas morning. It’s so peaceful watching the kids play with thei…OH MY G REEEEEEEEEEE
I saw a video on this. The engineering for it's day was incredible. Well done on the model.
I think the biggest reason this never became reality is that every car needs a gyroscope to stay upright. Current train cars are just slabs with wheels on them hooked together, you can't beat that simplicity
did you just watch that video explaining these too?
Derailings wouldn't exi......
Very cool model!
“HOLY CRAP, LOIS THE MODEL SCALE GYROSCOPE MONORAIL WORKS”
ナイス👍😊
Nice! Learnt about it a few days ago in the Primal Space video
That is so cool great work 👍😁
Great toy” 👍😉
Why didn’t you show us inside the train to see the workings of the gyro?
Why are the truly futuristic inventions ones that were made over a century ago but got scrapped. Love the model!
I feel like train toys should be 80% rails.
Impressive model !
Train + Bicycle = This
Pretty cool!
amazing !!!
This is a very nice model
Excellent work..!
Cool! a Model of the Brennan Monorail from 1910!
There were also Gyroscopic driven Buses, I think in the 60's(?) which had the somewhat 6t heavy Gyro spin up to a astronomically high Number of Revolutions and then could drive with that energy for some Kilometers before needing a Busstop with overhead Power to spin it up again.... If I'm informed correctly, there are still some of these in use somewhere in Africa...
Great model :-)
It's like something I'd expect to see in Bioshock, not reality O_O
Can not believe it?
Nope, impossiblu!
would you believe that this was also patented in 1903?
Very impressive!
Amazing!
Very nice video, very nice model (I love it 😍), if you add a video with working gyroscopes when the train is riding it will be amazing 🤩.
11 Years later and I still find it so impressive, Gyroscopes are such a wonderful invention, why did we just abandoned them like that intead of embracing their use?!
Fantastic. I love it😊. Great model making. 😊
fantastic model, thanks for sharing
1:16 *Deja Vu I've just been in this place before*
That’s cool!
Very cool!
Very clever in it's day i was watching a UA-cam video about the original and how they overcame the problems ! 👍🇬🇧
ジローって何やねんておもったらジャイロのことだった
Lovely looking train, love the whole monorail thing, superb!
Beautiful model. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Very creative
走った姿見て一言目
「あ、はーっ！？」^^;(笑)
This is nice! The first Turbo Monorail.... Coool
Very clever design.
So amazing
Вот это пепелац!))) кин-дза-дза отдыхает
Amazing
Interesting model!
I wish they had actually worked on this technology... Imagine electric gyro monorails today!
The fact that you can do something, does not imply that you should.
That is so Cool !
This is beyond cool.
This invention was so effective, but yet each railcar needed a gyro, so it failed in the end, but in theory it was so successful
Great concept but must keep the gyro spinning to keep upright.
Look up “Brennan monorail”. The vacuum seal kept the gyro*S* spinning for 30+ minutes without power
Gyroscopes have been used for centuries and are very common. However, the size of gyro required for a full size monorail would be terrifying. Imagine sitting in monorail cart with a high speed spinning disk weighing a few thousand pounds nearby. If it broke loose, not much would be able to stop it.
There was one built in England. Called the Turbo Monorail.
Amazing 😮
This is bussin
excellent
interesting concept!
Bravo!
Wonderful!😃
Keep it up bro
Brilliant!
Very Cool! I'm sure it be a big seller here in the U.S. .
Any one know about references for design of monorail rails (especially profiles to be chosen) and wheel profile design to minimize friction. It appears that using cylindrical rails and convex wheel profiles will create noise and point loads. conventional rail and rail wheelset have a line contact under normal conditions with coning angle to ensure centering. Are there similar design considerations for monorail wheelset and railset design
I thought traditional wheelsets were conical so not sure they would suit a mono-rail application. I do get you point about contact points and friction though 😊
Wow, impressive
Bravo ! c'est très beau !
very cool but the track needs to be longer
What a sound. Imagine the headache...😅
The passengers would be very giddy by now.
Super ideea, îmi place, am aflat ca primul tren giroscopic a fost făcut de - Шиловский Пётр.
It seems like the famous Brennan's gyro locomotive.
Very cool! You design this toy or is this a purchase. I know the protype vehicle concept is very old.
Tolles Modell!
Very cool model, and the video ended like movie: Inception :)
This could be a real train in XXth century. So exciting! I hope the technology will be revised some day and use some small antigravity mechanisms instead of those huge and rapidly-rotating gyro-rotors inside the carriage. 👍👍👍
Зачетно, подумывают такой в H0 сделать.
what if you start it at inclined position?
will gyros bring it to vertical position?
the ghosts will love it
Merci du partage! Stéph.
Brennan would be proud
Cool…🎉
And thanks to precession it even leans into the curve.
Nice looking rail system you made . Does this use one or two gyroscopes ? I understand someone made plans for these for a Japanese railroading magazine " was that you ? " and AkubilR wrote the articles . Is there an english language version ? I haven't been able to find it over here in America .
It has to use two. If it uses one, it shouldn’t be able to turn.
It uses two, otherwise it‘d fly off in the curves
@@electricheisenberg5723 My gyroscopic two wheeler uses a single rotor and turns left and right: ua-cam.com/video/UUfhcObPBeE/v-deo.html
初めまして。私もジャイロモノレールを製作しており、走行装置と軌道の製作が課題です。
レールの素材について教えてください。
真鍮の丸棒を上下ではんだ付けしている様に見えますが、直径はφ何mmでしょうか？
真鍮線3ｍｍを銀ロー付けしています。
ありがとうございます。
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