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  1. The Elegant Solution: Linear Motor Loom / Magnetic Rivers

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    145
    NoS ID
    325606
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Certain scientific developments have an immediate appeal - an appeal based on their inherent elegance. This issue looks at four ideas in science which, echoing the elegance that dominates the...

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  2. Electromagnetic Induction (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Starts with a series of demonstrations showing the three electromagnetic principles on which the induction motor is based. Then uses models to explain how a linear induction motor works. The new magnetic...

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  3. Eric Laithwaite

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    The Pacemakers
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    327139
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Professor Laithwaite is Professor of Heavy Electrical Engineering at Imperial College, London. Although he is experienced in all aspects of electrical engineering his speciality is linear...

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  4. Put a Stop to It

    Date released
    28 Mar 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2025A
    NoS ID
    027319
    Story no
    6 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Put a Stop to It. DESCRIPTION: The Motor Industry’s new Crash laboratory has just opened at Nuneaton. A nine hundred pound car, destroyed in the cause of safety. At Farnborough a new...

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  5. High Speed Surface Train

    Date released
    27 Mar 1977
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2495
    NoS ID
    030965
    Story no
    2 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: High Speed Transport. DESCRIPTION: A Parliamentary Observation team visit Kawasaki in Japan, to see the developments the Japanese have made with their High Speed Surface Train. The...

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  6. A Major New Power Unit For The World

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    37
    NoS ID
    326136
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: The linear motor. A new concept in harnessing power - just about the fastest motor ever invented with applications from driving trains to thrusting cave in to concrete blocks for research...

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  7. Breakthrough

    Date released
    1962
    Series name
    The Way Ahead (Wyvern)
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352959
    Story no
    4 / 7

    NoS synopsis: Linear Motor trials at Gorton Loco Works. BTC’s scientists including Dr. Eric Laithwaite.

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