The August , 1918 cover of Hugo Gernsback’sElectrical Experimentermagazine featured the “ aerial mono - flyer of the time to come . ”
This monorail seems like only a modest melioration in safety over the 1930 ’s rubber-necking demise - trap known as thesky toboggan . But the mono - bill is assuredly a less safe concept than the monorail ofWilliam H. Boyes , built around 1911 .
This ikon was found in the bookOut of metre : Designs for the Twentieth - Century Future . accord to the book , Gernsback introduced Electrical Experimenter in 1915 and change the name of the powder magazine to Science and Invention in 1920 .
This Wiley Post originally appeared atPaleofuture.com .
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