trains are good places for reflection, are there scientists or artists who have famously thought up their idea on train, that you know of?
2006-08-11 04:33:33 · 6 answers · asked by Martin B 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
Actually, YES--if you count a city tram as a train. This is a true story: Albert Einstein used to work in the patent office in Berne, Switzerland. And every day he would take the tram to work. On the way he would pass a clock tower. And over time, riding the tram every day, he started wondering what would happen to the clock--to time--if the train went faster or slower. And then he wondered would would happen to time if the train was travelling at the speed of light--how the clock would look to people ON the tram. Would time itself appear to change? It's said that this is how he came up with his Theory of Relativity!
ADDENDUM: OMG, how could I forget...this is ALSO true: J.K. Rowling was on a train from Manchester to London in the UK--and she says that by the time she got off the train, she had completely conceived of the "Harry Potter" idea and most of the major characters. If Einstein's Theory of Relativity is arguably the greatest scientific idea thought of on a train (tram), then "Harry Potter" is undoubtedly the most successful artistic work invented on a train ride....
2006-08-11 05:42:45 · answer #1 · answered by zeebaneighba 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
George Westinghouse got here up with the assumption of air-activated brakes to stop a prepare mutually as watching the injured conductor on a prepare he became using. As became trouble-free interior the previous days while trains have been stopped via the conductors accomplishing between the autos and turning a hand wheel for braking, that guy had misplaced his arm.
2016-12-14 04:16:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frank and jesse james when riding on the great western railway,they thought up the idea of robbing the great western rail train company because the greedy rich owners of the company stole their land.
2006-08-13 11:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by ralphthemouth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did.. i thought soon as i get off this dam train i'm going to run home and drop into my comfortable bed and drop off to sleep.
i couldn't think on the train i was on.. 9 hour ride to south carolina (to meet an artist friend to do a gallery thingy) ... coming back though... snoring, a guy who got sick of the snoring walking around getting upset...
the floor was sticky, baby was screaming and barfing.. the train was wobbilng bad... i had to pee alot.. the bathroom's were always occupied, i thought about bursting and all the noise..
so i didn't have that opportunity.
cept one idea came up... next time it's the car.
2006-08-11 04:40:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
George Westinghouse invented the train air brake system employed today. It may be he was riding when the idea struck.
2006-08-12 09:10:10 · answer #5 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes... my idea:go to milan
2006-08-11 04:39:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋