The Elegant Solution: Linear Motor Loom / Magnetic Rivers
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 4
- Summary
- 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 natural world, offer us an "elegant solution". A weaving loom is the newest application for the linear electric motor - an elegantly simple motor with no moving parts. And in the latest development of the principle - the magnetic river - the elegance is doubled: one motor simultaneously propels and supports a vehicle floating on air.
- Keywords
- Transport; Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 51 [BFI National Archive]
COI Microfilm Roll 54 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/145
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Peter Day
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'The Elegant Solution: Linear Motor Loom / Magnetic Rivers', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 145, 1974. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325606 (Accessed 10 Jun 2025)