{"id":4173,"date":"2008-02-06T23:13:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T07:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/06\/everything-new-is-old-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:17:52","slug":"everything-new-is-old-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/02\/06\/everything-new-is-old-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything New is Old Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short quote from the end of an article about the Seattle Monorail: &#8220;Like so many inventions, lack of financial backing prevented further development.&#8221; What&#8217;s interesting about this (at least to Seattleites&#8230;er, well, at least to me&#8230;) is that it&#8217;s talking not about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seattle_Monorail_Project\" title=\"Wikipedia: Seattle Monorail Project\">recent monorail debacle<\/a>, nor the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlemonorail.com\/\" title=\"Seattle Monorail\">existing monorail<\/a> built for the 1962 Worlds Fair, but the 1911 William H. Boyes Monorail.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/boyesmonorail.jpg\" title=\"Boyes Monorail\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image4172\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/boyesmonorail.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Boyes Monorail\" width=\"128\" height=\"81\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This test track was built and demonstrated in 1911 in the tideflats of Seattle, Washington. The rails were made of wood and track cost was estimated to be around $3,000 per mile. A bargain! The Seattle Times commented at the time that &#8220;the time may come when these wooden monorail lines, like high fences, will go straggling across country, carrying their burden of cars that will develop a speed of about 20 miles per hour.&#8221; Like so many inventions, lack of financial backing prevented further development.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neat!<\/p>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleofuture.com\/2008\/02\/william-h-boyes-monorail-1911.html\" title=\"Paleo-Future: William H. Boyes Monorail (1911)\">Paleo-Future<\/a><\/em>, quoted paragraph from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monorails.org\/tMspages\/History.html\" title=\"Monorails in History\">Monorails in History<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many inventions, lack of financial backing prevented further development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}