The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-28
OVERALL ROAD ID AMAZE THE WORLD Brilliant Achievement of Young
 British inventor GYROSCOPE IS THE SECRET Speed of POO Miles on One Rail Can Be Attained Without the ord-
 nary Dangers of Travel
 as at Present.
GYROSCOPE IS THE SECRET
From the Chicago Record-Herald.

From the Chicago Record-Herald
 Chicago railroad officials who have re- gently returned from London are inclined to believe that in the monorailway, or gyroscope railroad, Louis Brennan, B. C., has an invention which bids fair to revo- lutionze some of the fields, at least, of transportation. Notwithstanding the fact the gyroscopic monorailway apparently defies the laws of gravitation and does things which are wonderful, if not mirac. ulous, railway men declare that a man who has stampeded the British govern ment on two occasions Is not to be scoffed at, but is to be reckoned with, no mat ter how seemingly extravagant his claims may be. However this may be, railway and mechanical experts throughout the civilized world are watching the develop ments of this gyroscopic railroad with in- tense interest.
 The public demonstrations of the possi- bilities of the monorailway, which were made at Chatham, before the Royal socie- ty on November 10, are regarded by raIl- way men as decidedly revolutionary. What they saw was a railway car 40 feet long, 10 feet wide and 13 feet high weigh ing 22 tons, mounted on single rail and running freely around curves while safely carrying 70 passengers, who experienced less vibration than would have been ex- perienced in an ordinary passenger coach.
 Government Aids Inventor.
 This successful experiment takes on added interest when 1t is understood that MT. Brennan was given s1o,0O0 by the war council of the British government and s25,00o by the Indian government to bring 1t about. Interest is still further enhanced in this mans statement that the monorailway is to be the future meth cd of transportation by the fact that in 1880 he sold the British government his new torpedo in which the gyroscopic principle is used, obtaining for it S550,- 600, which Is four times as much as was ever paid before by any government for an invention. Having paid this large sum, the British government erected factory at Chatham for It's manufacture and gave Mir. Brennan an exceedingly large salary to run 1t. Then when Mir. Brennan quit the government closed the factory rather than to have the secrets of the torpedo revealed to another su- perintendent. For this ''contribution to the safety Of the nations MT. Brennan was made Companion of the Bath.
 The priciple upon which the mono railway operates is that of the spinning top, which maintains it's equiligrium By means of It's rapid revolutions or gyra- tions The characteristic feature of this system of transportation Is that each vehicle is capable of maintaining it's balance upon an ordinary rail laid upon slsepers on the ground, whether 1t is standing still or moving in either direo- ton at any rate of speed. This Is done notwith standing the fact that the center of gravity is several feet above the rail and that wind pressure, shifting of load, centrifugal action or any com bination of these forces may tend to upset 1t. Automatic stability mechan- ism of extreme simplicity carried by the vehicle itself endows 1t with this power.
 Principle of Mechanism.
 The mechanism consists essentially of two ny-wheels rotated directly by cleo trio motors and mounted so that their