"Trolleybuses, as far as I know, once came from Hungary, is that correct?"
But the trolleybus was not invented at all in the Soviet Union, but in Germany, at the end of the 19th century. The world owes the appearance of the trolleybus to the talented engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Werner von Siemens, the founder of the now well-known company Siemens. His idea was to use a contact network for the transmission of electricity. The very first vehicle using this principle was called the "electric motor" and was introduced by Siemens near Berlin in 1882. It was a four-wheeled cart, where two two-kilowatt electric motors were connected to the rear pair of wheels through a chain drive.
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Date: 14 August 2022 09:19 pm (UTC)But the trolleybus was not invented at all in the Soviet Union, but in Germany, at the end of the 19th century. The world owes the appearance of the trolleybus to the talented engineer, inventor and entrepreneur Werner von Siemens, the founder of the now well-known company Siemens. His idea was to use a contact network for the transmission of electricity. The very first vehicle using this principle was called the "electric motor" and was introduced by Siemens near Berlin in 1882. It was a four-wheeled cart, where two two-kilowatt electric motors were connected to the rear pair of wheels through a chain drive.
https://zen.yandex.ru/media/pronauka/kto-i-gde-pridumal-trolleibus-5d493ce906cc4600ae84e170 (https://zen.yandex.ru/media/pronauka/kto-i-gde-pridumal-trolleibus-5d493ce906cc4600ae84e170)