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Maglev America

How Maglev Will Transform the World Economy

Maglev America( )
Author: Powell, James
Danby, Gordon
Contribution by: Coullahan, Robert
Fazio, Ernest
Griffis, Fletcher
Jordan, James
Maise, George
Rather, John
ISBN:978-1-4923-2759-2
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $20.00
Book Description:

Maglev America is a sequel to The Fight for Maglev published by Amazon in February 2012. In this new book, the inventors, and other experts, make the case for Maglev applications and projects that were not specifically detailed in The Fight for Maglev. The lead authors, Dr. James Powell and Dr. Gordon Danby, his co-inventor of superconducting maglev, and the contributing editors, share a vision for deploying Maglev technology as a transport system in the least disruptive way to the...
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Book Details
Pages:428
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.07 Inches
Book Weight:1.59 Pounds
Author Biography
Powell, James (Author)
Gordon Thompson Danby was born in Richmond, Ontario, Canada on November 8, 1929. He studied mathematics and physics at Carleton University in Ottawa and received a doctorate in nuclear physics from McGill University in Montreal. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1957 until 1999. He later worked as a consultant for the Fonar Corporation, designing superconducting electromagnets for the company's magnetic resonance imaging machines.

While working at Brookhaven, he and colleague James R. Powell invented superconducting magnetic-levitation trains. They published a paper on it in an engineering journal in 1966 and received a patent two years later. They collaborated on several books including The Fight for Maglev: Making America The World Leader In 21st Century Transport and Maglev America: How Maglev Will Transform the World Economy. They received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering in 2000 for their work on maglev transportation. Despite their extensive efforts at promotion, the concept has never caught on widely. Danby died on August 2, 2016 at the age of 86.

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