Not content with waiting for the distant future, [Sam Barker] made his own electric monowheel. (Video, embedded below.) The hardest part of any monowheel is that the outside rim needs to stand ...
2. The monowheel In 1869, French craftsman Rousseau of Marseilles built the first in history's line of unsuccessful monocycles. Sitting inside the monowheel, a rider steered the contraption by ...
Another variant is the two-wheeled tractor, which places a motor above a single-axis; the operator walks beside it or rides on the towed equipment. There are also monowheel tractors, which in fact ...
There's always a better way to get from A to B. Here's New Atlas checks out the most innovative modes of transport for getting around town in the 21st century.