Eric Laithwaite

"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…"

"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…"

"An engineer is first and foremost a scientist. ...an applied scientist ...whose ultimate objective is the profitable manufacture of articles... Academic engineers may argue that they are as concerned …"

"I know no property of a gyroscope that conflicts... with the conservation of energy. ... is in the same state today that as it was in the fifteenth century when Leonardo da Vinci denounced it so prope…"

"It is not strange that the engineer fails to produce a unique solution, that his product is seen to be the result of 'art' more than science. ...The product becomes a matter of opinion... and joins th…"