September 13, 2024
Tag: suspension monorail
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Tuffi und die Schwebebahn
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The suspension monorail was invented in England in the 1820s. The distinction is small but the first suspended railway was opened on June 25, 1825, using a patent recorded by Henry Palmer. It was built to carry bricks, but as an opening stunt it carried passengers. Through the next 75 years several iterations of the…
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January 3, 2022 5 Comments
The term, “Insurance Map” may be unknown to postcard collectors, nevertheless, the connection of how insurance maps relate to postcards is a topic presented in this article by Robert J. Stumm, Postcard History’s newest contributor. His method of identifying buildings in bird’s eye view postcards encourages the curious to head to your local historical society.