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The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling

Open Culture 08 April 2026 6h ago
The Self-Balancing Monorail: A 1910 Train That Could Balance Without Falling
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If monorails have a bad name, The Simpsons may be to blame. In an episode acclaimed for its hilariousness since it first aired 33 years ago, a huckster shows up in Springfield and convinces the town to build just such a transit system, which turns out to be not just suspiciously unnecessary (at least in young […]
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