Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past-- and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications. In "The Disney monorail: imagineering a highway in the sky", a reader will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt's prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world. "The Disney monorail" is a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations. Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art-- much of it never before published-- readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's realities!
