Eric Laithwaite

"When you discover something or observe something for the first time, you... wonder how that works, and then you make one, and you look at it, and you decide you'd better find out how it works. ...ou s…"

"West Germany branched... into... another new topology with a large-scale demonstration of the '' system... Permanents were used to provide the lift from the underside of a ground rail. Guide wheels we…"

"Isaac Newton was right when he declared "If I can see further than others it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants." And you start counting up Newton's giants... Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, Ar…"

"Perhaps it was World War II which came to the rescue again when the ridiculous Professor became almost indistinguishable from the 'Back Room Boy'...It reminded me of a young lady who was quite accurat…"

"Virtual Gyroscopes with a repetition of Laithwaite's demonstrations and explanation using Newtonian Mechanics from University of Cambridge, Deparment of Engineering"

"world financial recession brought governments into conflict with technological innovation in linear motors in the mid 1970s. Looking back... it will seem amazing that at a time when millions of pounds…"

"Where to begin is obvious—with Michael Faraday... But we must proceed rapidly, jumping 70 to 80 years to Zehden and to Bachelet, then on to Kemper , on again to Bedford, Peer and Tonks for induction l…"

"The legacy of rotary machine design can be seen, in part, as an inhibition of linear motor experimentation, even as far as the 1970s. In rotary machines, the tangential direction was the thrust direct…"