stackyFACTSDecades before modern conveyor belts, inventor John Hays Hammond decided the best way to move suitcases was an elaborate, elevated monorail network.
Decades before modern conveyor belts, inventor John Hays Hammond decided the best way to move suitcases was an elaborate, elevated monorail network. Instead of dragging your bags, you would strap them into torpedo-like pods that zipped along overhead tracks across sprawling train stations. While visually spectacular, dealing with jammed luggage pods stuck twenty feet in the air proved so annoying that everyone just went back to using regular, ground-based carts.
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