From the early 20th century came one of history’s strangest inventions—the motorized monowheel. A single giant wheel encircling its rider, it promised futuristic speed and simplicity but often ...

The annual Cholmondeley Pageant of Power in the U.K. never fails to deliver something special and this year that exotic ingredient is a 1910 Edison-Puton Monowheel. Capable of being ogled by engineers ...

One look at this circular contraption, and your first thought might be, "What is this wacky wheel?" Your next question could be, "Who came up with this crazy concept?" Well, it's called a monowheel, ...

GREEN BAY - A piece of history is being preserved at Green Bay's Neville Public Museum.The museum's wooden monowheel dates back about 150 years.It stands nearly six feet tall."The word that I'm being ...

Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-foot monowheel. It's on our list of ideas from early 20th century gearheads that we wish had caught on, if only because ...

Since the dawn of the age of the automobile, motorheads have been obsessed with using as few wheels as possible. Not satisfied with the prospect of being incompletely maimed by a motorcycle, the ...

For the past 15 months, a team of engineers from the Duke University in North Carolina have been working on what they hope will be the world’s fastest electric monowheel. Dubbed EV360, it can reach ...