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Magnetic Levitation
- An Amazing
Invention, and a Patent Failure: Part one of two parts: The
invention.
(The Providence Journal, September 22, 1999).
IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT - a magnetic top spinning, bobbing and
weaving in space for two minutes or longer. It remains levitated two
or three inches above a larger base magnet. The top is not touching
any other object, and no strings, electricity or other devices are
used.
- The Patent
that Failed
(The Providence Journal, September 23,
1999) Second of two parts. In 1993 Seattle entrepreneur Bill
Hones ran across a 10-year-old U.S. patent des cribing a device for
levitating a spinning permanent magnet. Hones contacted Roy Harrigan,
the inven tor, to ask about it. Harrigan assured him that the magnet
really does levitate. To prove it he sent Hones a videotape showing
an actual working model.
Reference to Some of Rod Driver's Papers
Contact Information
Rod Driver
P.O. Box 156, W. Kingston, RI 02892
Telephone: (401) 539-7985
E-mail: rod@roddriver.com
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