MOVING SIDEWALK FOR CITIES.
New York is discussing - a proposal lor a moving sidewalk, Co supersede tramcars. It is propelled by an endless chain, by stationary engines, placed at the distance of a mile or half a mile apart. The sidewalk on each side of the street moves in an opposite direction. The rate of speed suggested varies from eight to ten and as high as fifteen miles an hour. The plan is being discussed in Albany legislature, on a motion to grant a charter to a Movable Sidewalk Company, to operate on certain thoroughfares in New York. The working model is said to be most convincing as to the practicability of the scheme. Speer is the inventor, and the invention is named :i Speer’s Moving Sidewalk.”
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Patea Mail, 16 December 1880, Page 3
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127MOVING SIDEWALK FOR CITIES. Patea Mail, 16 December 1880, Page 3
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