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French inventor, creator of the world's first passenger-carrying monorail.
By 1881 Lartigue had built a 90-kilometer monorail to transport esparto grass across the Algerian desert, with mules pulling 'trains' of panniers that straddled the elevated rail. In theory, a monorail system should be lighter, easier and cheaper to build than a railway with twin parallel tracks, so several European railway companies took an interest in Lartigue's novel idea. But only two Lartigues were ever built: one in France, but it was never used; an the other linked Listowel and Ballybunion, two rural towns in County Kerry in the South West of Ireland. When it opened on February 29th, 1888, it was the world's first passenger-carrying monorail. The future was looking bright, and possibly even camel-shaped !
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LARTIGUE, Charles
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* 1834
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Toulouse, France
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1881
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Invention : Monorail qui porta son nom : «Monorail Lartigue» (avec application de traction électrique au chemin de fer Monorail)
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1881
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Algérie
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Construction d'un monorail de 90km pour transporter le sparte à travers le désert Algérien
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01.03.1888
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Irlande
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Ouverture du célèbre chemin de fer de Listowel et de Ballybunion.
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† 1907
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