The Disney Monorail av Jeff Kurtti, Vanessa Hunt, Paul Wolski

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<B>Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney''s most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail. </B><B><br></B>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.<br>In <I>The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky</I>, readers 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 the