Two Burbank engineers toot whistle for their suspended-type monorail
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated April 20, 1962 partially reads, "Two Burbank engineers think they have the answer to the problems of urban transportation. Their solution: a suspended-type monorail which, they claim, is safer and more economical than any existing system in the United State [sic]. Existing systems, such as the monorails at Disneyland and Seattle, operate on the conventional single tracks. Norman Greene and Robert Cripe have been actively developing their monorail system the last seven years although Greene actually conceived of the idea during World War II and began working on it some 16 years ago." Pictured are Robert Cripe, business manager Walter Benko (center), and Norman Greene.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Monorail railroads Businessmen--United States Engineers--United States Inventors--United States Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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