Learning more in just under 20 minutes than I did in 2 years of GCSE science! Great visuals.

This guy had a real talent for conveying information. Some really cool concepts explained, and I can see a lot of potential applications.

i wish this guy had taught me

60's was really a special time. Lots of interesting people and interesting ideas

his gear is so awesome. everything was cooler in the 60s

This video is a gem and Prof Laithewaite is a master educator

The man was a genius !

Professor Laithwaite spent a lot of his life advocating Linear Induction motors (like the travelling aluminium sheet) He spoke of the bed as carrying a magnetic river with (if I remember correctly) a tendency to keep the sheet on the bed as it travelled along. I am not sure how this is related to the idea of Maglev trains, which are with us. But in my books, prof Laithwaite is an unsung hero. And if we must have HS2, at least let it be a Maglev.

please tell me there are many more recorded lectures from this man. What a wonderful lesson! So insightful!

Rejected as a heretic, I hope they build a statue for Eric. The military and transport now use the technology he was tinkering with. Rail gun and high speed trains that levitate.

If Eric Laithwaite had taught at my school, i would have listened to every word as opposed to my school report which states : "If he spent more time actually working, rather than looking out of the window, he might have something to show for his time at school".

This is how our lectures were, and the key was they had on the most part seen nation service and been in industry before going onto higher academic achievements. Good days and you had a quick pint at lunchtime before afternoon lectures. Lol

Takes me back to the 1970s and the Royal Institution Christmas lectures.

Literally perfect analogies

I love he gets a big smile on his face when he says "Magneto Hydro Dynamics." The iron coil and magnetic flux bit must be the basic theory behind wireless battery chargers I assume?

rolled up into a tube 15.21......the large hadron collider

Absolutely love Eric!!!! I absolutely wish I could have sat and picked his mind.

ha that's so cool. I love these videos they always leave me smiling like some kind of idiot

Thank you

Good stuff!

Great stuff...thanks !

Amazing!!!

i get the feeling John Hutchinson has watched this video.

We sure came full circle in the circle of magnetism!

wow thanks

Very interesting stuff, it would be nice to teach again this way, bud probably to expensive !

Eric was a very smart and logical man. He was observing the effects of the ether circulating in both his electromagnets and his famous gyro demonstrations. The fact that all matter interacts in the high density energy field called ether was just outside of his understanding. I believe that if he had lived longer he would have made the connection. God Bless Eric Laithwaite!

Wow!! wireless charging invented in that time..amazing

o sorry i forgot to thank you for posting this thank you

Man this guy is/was good.

Correction? The little piece (shim) of steel at the 5 min mark was not a magnet, therefore its domains would align/adjust according to the local magnetic fields. Orientations of one shim to the single magnet were s-n:N-S but when the steel was placed between both magnets the orientation became S-N:s-n-s:N-S. The shim did not become a magnet, especially not a N mono-pole nor an extension of the first magnets' N pole as implied in the demo. Next, the two steel shims oriented S-N:s-n : n-s:N-S and therefore both magnet-shim combos repelled each other from the n to n shim interface.

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He did say that when attached to the single shim that the two magnets were trying to pull the shim into two pieces. So he kinda explained what you are saying. But thank you for typing out how the poles were working it made it really easy to understand!

He didn't get this knowledge from books, he got it from nature.

They obviously didn't know too much about Mercury back then.

you can make electromagnetism do anything that anything else can do......the virtual universe 16.21

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Wow I've seen these magnetic guns or rail guns . And this technology has been around since I was three . I am also learning about electricity

no fear of mercury

But aluminum is not magnetic So how can this be

Who in the hell dislikes this