Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, electric overhead monorail, 1901. This the world's first, and oldest still operating, overhead monorail passenger transport system was designed by the German engineer Eugen Langen (1833-1895), and was opened to the public on 1 March 1901. From a series of cards, (London, 1901). Chromolithograph.

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Barmen-Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, electric overhead monorail, 1901. This the world's first, and oldest still operating, overhead monorail passenger transport system was designed by the German engineer Eugen Langen (1833-1895), and was opened to the public on 1 March 1901. From a series of cards, (London, 1901). Chromolithograph.

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