Gyrocar Obsession: Balancing the Impossible

In the early 20th century, before the design of the four-wheeled automobile was universally standardized, a Russian count named Pyotr Shilovsky convinced the British engineering firm Wolseley to build something utterly terrifying: a massive, heavy, six-seater luxury car that balanced on only two wheels. The 1914 Gyrocar was a breathtaking, absurd defiance of gravity. Shilovsky believed that a tw...