page_title: Monorail
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Monorail / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Einschienenbahn von Louis Brennan (1907). English: Louis Brennan's Monorail (1907) 15:35, 8. Jan 2005 Anton 315 x 411 (32520 Byte) (Einschienenbahn von Brennan und Scherl (1907). &lt;br/&gt;Scan und Bildbearbeitung: Anton (rp). Diese Rechte freigegeben. Bildrechte des Verlags Diek &amp; Co erloschen, da Bild spätestens 1927 veröffentlicht wurde. Fotograf ist unbekannt.)
context_page_description: A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the trains traveling on such a beam or track. The term originates from joining "mono" and "rail" from 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen, who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway.
  Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style of track.
caption: Gyroscopically balanced monorail (1909) by Brennan and Scherl
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