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Maglev stands for magnetic levitation which is how these trains hover and are pushed along the tracks.
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While only three countries currently have operational maglev trains, China, Japan and South Korea, the world’s first commercial maglev train system actually launched in Birmingham, UK in 1985, three years after this lecture was broadcast.
Watch the full lecture: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1983/machines-in-motion/driving-forces?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description
Leonard Maunder gave the 1983 Christmas Lectures “Machines in Motion” about motion on all scales – from atoms to locomotives to space ships.
The first lecture “Driving Forces” is about the kinematics that make up the geometry of motion.
Watch the full series: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1983/machines-in-motion?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description
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RI is great
It's not really flying but good show anyway
Nice, a safer version of Hyperloop, someone call Elon
Why did I expect to see Eric Laithwaite doing this lecture?
This was filmed a long while ago! British Pail was sold off years ago 🙂
Would very much appreciate a diagram on the workings of ‘the black box’
what about using a transistor or mosfet to turn a electromagnet on and off to move permanent magnets in and out of Michael Faraday’s coil of copper wire? ?? ???
oxygen is paramagnetic and water contains o2 maybe strong magnets could change the rate of acceleration of water on Leonardo da Vinci’s experiment..? ????♂️
LOL! All of those British levitating trains aren't just flying, they're also invisible thanks to those magnetic wonders of technology.
from the description
"While only three countries currently have operational maglev trains, China, Japan and South Korea, the world's first commercial maglev train system actually launched in Birmingham, UK in 1985, three years after this lecture was broadcast. "
Apparently it ran until 1995
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/488394.stm
Looks almost like an early 1980s HP Desktop Computer, perhaps the HP-85.
in germany, it was a (mostly political) fail. In china, it seems to be a success.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
This video should have been uploaded in the original refresh rate of 50 not 25 FPS.
WTF
By 2030 we will all fly with jetpacks.
1850 technology
I want to stress this point, this knowledge has got fuck all to do with Tesla and his so called "inventions".