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Levitation For Tomorrow’s Railways

Filmed

Dec 1969

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

24

NoS ID

350869

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: A breakthrough in the art of levitation by magnetic fields promises to revolutionise industry by slashing production times in many processes. Riding on an invisible magnetic cushion may even...

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Maglev (1979 Film)

Director
Bill Mason

Producer
Lionel Cole

Subject
Physics; Technology

Distribution
Film (16mm)

Describes an experimental vehicle using magnetic levitation for suspension.
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New additions to the Moving Image Gateway

Date
10 Jan 2013, 13:57

Author
Andrew Ormsby

Post Type
Post

The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,300 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...
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Levitation For Tomorrow’s Railways

Filmed

Dec 1969

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

24

NoS ID

350872

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: A breakthrough in the art of levitation by magnetic fields promises to revolutionise industry by slashing production times in many processes. Riding on an invisible magnetic cushion may even...

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Maglev Train (2012)

Subject
Physics

Dr Andrew Steele explains how a superconducting magnetic levitation or maglev train works. [5 minutes]
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Thread of Quicksilver, A (1998 Video)

Subject
Chemistry

Distribution
Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the history of mercury from its use as a cosmetic and a paint, through to magnetic levitation (Maglev) railway trains. Set in Almaden, Spain, the world’s largest producer of mercury.
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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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Japan Dreaming (1990 Video)

Director
Sue Clayton

Producer
Sue Clayton

Subject
Environmental science

Distribution
out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at Japan’s dream of a future which will be clean, serene and bursting with new-age technology. New areas of research (fuzzy logic, opto-neural computers) have pushed the frontiers of traditional...
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Lectures on Superconductivity (2009)

Subject
Physics

Distribution
DVD (Region 2 PAL), not yet available

An ongoing project on superconductivity produced to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of superconductivity in 2011. It consists of a series of video lectures by leading world experts in academia and...
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