BRENNAN'S GYROSCOPE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13958, 18 July 1907, Page 2

BRENNAN'S GYROSCOPE.

PORTENDED REVOLUTION IN RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. If the application of tho gyroscope or gyrostat ie tho ultimate success foreshadowed in the recent exhibition of Mr Brennan's invention, its use in monorail railway construction, and its installation in motor oars and airships should speedily follow. The July number of Progress contains aii illustrated article fully explaining tho principle of tho invention. Speaking to a reporter from tho Westminster after the experiment, Mr Bronnan said "One of its first uses will be in connection with pioneer railways in the colonies, where (here are sparse populations on the fringe of large towns, and the quick marketing of produce is a prime necessity." And a correspondent in Progress says:—"Brcnnan'a experiments with the gyroscopio monorail eoem to open up vast possibilities as regards higli speed passongor traine on our narrow gauge railways, these railways being more or kes a compromise between a broad gauge a.nd a monorail; and until now wo have had to sacrifice speed for the economy of construction. If, however, the eyroscopic condition is going to provide high speeds on the monorail it should also provide at least as high a speed on our narrow guage, and some future generation instead of being; involved in a costly reconstruction schrfme, and cursing their fore-fathers for endowing their nation with an obsolete railway trade will be blessing them as far-seeing wiseheads who knew what was coming. The gyroscopic system need not be applied to goods or mineral 10ad.3, but to passenger and mail trains where the time element is all important. If Brennon can got over tho difficulty of negotiating a curve (and all moving bodies object to curved courses unless a superior condition is brought to influoncc them), high epccd6 upon our railways will be easily accompfehod."

A man living- in Seaward Bush was ?oin<r to shoot a hawk with a pea-rifle on Sunday. His wife caught hold of the weapon in the belief that it was not loaded: but it was, and the bullet passed through her thigh and into the abdomen. The injured woman was boated down to Fortrose, then driven to Waiinahaka. where she received attention from Dr Baird.— Herald.