Big Bertha Thing monorail
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Drawing of model of track on the bottom monorail.

Caption;-
Model exhibited before the Royal Society, May 8, 1907. 

Extract from Chapter V;-
72. The gyroscope has been employed by Mr. Louis Brennan
with striking ingenuity and success, to ensure the
stability of a heavy car travelling on a single line
of rail, with its centre of gravity above the level
of the rail, as is seen in the accompanying illustrations.... 

A full description of the mechanism, with a mathematical
discussion on the subject, is given by Mr. H. Cousins
in the issue of Engineering for Nov. 21st, 1913,
and following numbers. 

From the book
An Elementary Treatment of the Theory of
Spinning Tops and Gyroscopic Motion.
By Harold Crabtree M.A.
Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Master at Charterhouse
Longmans, Green and Co. 1923
First Edition 1909
Second Edition 1914
New Impression 1923
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Big Bertha Thing francis

To my brother-in-law Francis (RIP),
who I once called "as daft as a brush."
To his everlasting credit,
he replied "I know."

The greatest compliment,
my wife ever paid me,
was to say, that I did not hold a grudge.
Net surfers do not hold grudges,
but they are a bit short on victim support,
whichever side the victim comes from.

Tony Lance
judemarie@uku.co.uk


Big Bertha Thing handcart

 1. Gardening section of Daily Telegraph, on Saturday
    17th November 2001, shows full front page spread
    picture of pin-wheel rickshaw.
 2. For another picture see;-
    http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/pinwheel.html
 3. Both show load perfectly distributed.
 4. Both are idealized pictures of a rickshaw that does
    not exist.
 5. A 19th century cheque-book journalist requested a
    picture of an unnusual rickshaw, which was promised
    for tomorrow.
 6. A portrait painter, a landscape artist and a 
    cartoonist submitted quotes, which the cartoonist won.
 7. A wheelborrow uses straight arm technology.
 8. In common with a handcart, the so called pin-wheel
    rickshaw, uses bent arm technology.
 9. It is physically impossible and so unviable.
10. This is a scientific cartoon, some work, some don't.