Gavin
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From: Fred Epps <fepps@fidalgo.net>
To: interact@Keelynet.com <interact@Keelynet.com>
Date: 03 January 2000 22:50
Subject: RE: Air ship reports
>>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Reading throught the air ship reports prior to wright brothers and with
>> the little in the way of descriptions of their principle of levitation,
>> it draw a question of: "Has anyone ever built a capacitor designed as a
>> false monopole?"
>
>Yes, there are patents for both magnetic and electric versions of this.
>Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the inventor of the capacitor
>version, but he is a member of some of the lists, so he might pop up. The
>magnetic version was invented by Wachspress:
>
>http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04874346__
>
>US4874346: Free flying magnetic levitator
>
>A free flying magnetic levitator that is self stabilized and fully
>maneuverable for magnetic structure establishing an odd number of poles for
>interaction with another magnetic field having an even number of poles to
>produce linear motion instead of rotation without a guideway.
>Longitudinally wound coils produce the odd pole magnetic field for
>maximizing coupling with an even pole field such as the magnetic field of
>the earth.
>>
>> This is just a thought. Excuse me if it is imbecile.
>
>Not at all :-)
>
>Fred
>
>
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