1974, Commander Edwin Jenyss Quinby published a book with a title how fantastic and odd as that of Commander eclectic interests: passed a few insights into the scene: integrating the strange combination of steam origins, steamships, organs, telegraphy, cable radio, electric railways, and gyro monorails. Who was commander Quinby? Now, he was an inventor of musical instruments, an activist who fought to have a historical Riverboat, save a transportation buff, that tinker with his own electric car technology in his basement was. Was former BB Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag--author of cults, conspiracies and secret societies-Quinby also "one of these rare conspiracy theorists who was right."
"Commander Edwin j. Quinby and the Grand tram conspiracy"In the 1950s he was instrumental in efforts of Paddle Wheel Riverboat save the Delta Queen, he spent the last years of his life developing a prototype for an electric car in his basement. A 1960 article in the American heritage Magazine describes the remote-controlled steam-powered Calliope, which he for the Delta Queen created. At that time developed he also a Calliope, which could be installed on a car had car-he helped set up a trolley Museum in Branford, Connecticut so access on forty local "a kind of 'Trolleyope,' he compressed air from the brake pump (panting use organ under the floor)", which had used, go to THUMP THUMP THUMP when the cars stopped), airs on various trolley play bells, horns and whistles. "Amazon lists a quaintly titled book he published in 1974 (out of print and unavailable), which reflects the full range of his interests: passed a few insights into the scene: integrating the strange combination of steam origins, steamships, organs, telegraphy, cable radio", Electric railway and gyro monorails.
Quinby deserves its status of footnote in history, 1946, when he, a 24 schrieb-(or 26 or 37-page-different accounts offer different numbers) pamphlet, ran out of dozens of copies on a mimeograph machine in his basement, and mail it Congressman, Mayor and City Manager of the country. "This is an urgent warning to every one of you,"It began,", which is a carefully, deliberately planned campaign to you by your most important and valuable public utilities-your electric railway system Vertigo!" "Creating, it is new for you?"
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