An interesting story
I do not know if you have already heard this story, but who has not heard, here it is:Do you know that the standard width of most rail is 1435mm?
Have you ever wondered where exactly 1435mm are you?
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The first railways were built to the same extent, because the same people who built the first railroads, before that built railroads for the tram. And they were the same.
Why, then, were people building tram lines to that extent?Because people who produced trams, they produced them with the same tools they used to produce and carriages.
Why, then, were the carriages done exactly to that extent?If they were done in some other way, they would shoot at some old main roads, with exactly the same width of the carriage tracks.
Who built those roads?The first main roads in Europe were built by the ancient Romans for the needs of their own legions.
Why are traces on all these roads the same? Because they were made by warships that were all equal in the Roman Empire.
And why did they then choose exactly 1435mm?
Because in 1435mm there are two horse bugs.
There's more.
You all probably heard about Space Shuttle. What gives the Space Shuttle the biggest push is two solid rocket propellers that are attached to the Space Shuttle. The engineers who built them wanted to make them a little thicker.But those missiles are built by Thiokol from Utah.And it's transported by rail.This rail goes through the tunnel.The missiles must be made according to the custom tunnel.This tunnel is slightly wider than the width of the track, which is wide as two horse's buttocks.
And, you have it now. The most sophisticated mode of transport is limited by the measures that were determined by horse breeds 20 centuries ago.
I do not know if you have already heard this story, but who has not heard, here it is:Do you know that the standard width of most rail is 1435mm?
Have you ever wondered where exactly 1435mm are you?
Read
The first railways were built to the same extent, because the same people who built the first railroads, before that built railroads for the tram. And they were the same.
Why, then, were people building tram lines to that extent?Because people who produced trams, they produced them with the same tools they used to produce and carriages.
Why, then, were the carriages done exactly to that extent?If they were done in some other way, they would shoot at some old main roads, with exactly the same width of the carriage tracks.
Who built those roads?The first main roads in Europe were built by the ancient Romans for the needs of their own legions.
Why are traces on all these roads the same? Because they were made by warships that were all equal in the Roman Empire.
And why did they then choose exactly 1435mm?
Because in 1435mm there are two horse bugs.
There's more.
You all probably heard about Space Shuttle. What gives the Space Shuttle the biggest push is two solid rocket propellers that are attached to the Space Shuttle. The engineers who built them wanted to make them a little thicker.But those missiles are built by Thiokol from Utah.And it's transported by rail.This rail goes through the tunnel.The missiles must be made according to the custom tunnel.This tunnel is slightly wider than the width of the track, which is wide as two horse's buttocks.
And, you have it now. The most sophisticated mode of transport is limited by the measures that were determined by horse breeds 20 centuries ago.
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