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Eric Laithwaite Quotes

1921–1997 United Kingdom

Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was a British electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system. He and Fredrick Eastham designed a self-stable magnetic levitation system called Magnetic river (which incidentally appeared in the film The Spy Who Loved Me).

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I shall always believe the force of induction to be sheer magic in its own right!

A History of Linear Electric Motors (1987)

Linear motors can be regarded... as the physical result of splitting and unrolling of rotary machines, and there are therefore at least as many types of linear motor as rotary...

A History of Linear Electric Motors (1987)

There are so many facets to almost any subject... that to tell the whole in its proper time sequence would be to lose the reader in a sea of facts and details, some related, others not at all.

A History of Linear Electric Motors (1987)

[T]he mirror really is Lenz's law itself, for it changes hands for you as you go through the mirror and changes the motor to a generator at the same time.

Engineer Through the Looking-Glass (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric Laithwaite (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.