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Air-Propelled Train
A silent means of mass transit. (Read the full article)
| "Air-propelled trains go right back to Brunel and his atmospheric railway in South Devon, England, in the 1840s! The service lasted a few months and was then withdrawn as a failure. One reason it flopped was that rats kept gnawing at the wax and leather that was used to seal the pipes. " (Carl 1/5/2005 12:16:31 AM ) |
| "...and here's a link to more information:
http://www.thehistorynet.com/bh/blbrunelrailway/index1.html" ( 1/5/2005 12:20:23 AM ) |
| "Brunel was there, did that." (Don Fagan 5/5/2005 5:18:26 PM ) |
| "who invented air-propelled trains" (jkashjk 12/4/2006 11:54:56 AM ) |
| "how r they built" (harry 12/12/2006 6:28:06 PM ) |
| "Here is a nifty visualization of the future - from 1958. This is more what Bradbury had in mind years earlier.
(From Air-Propelled Train Design) ( 8/17/2007 11:23:15 PM ) |
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