{"id":138083,"date":"2022-04-13T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/magnetic-levitation-how-maglev-works"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T21:23:46","slug":"magnetic-levitation-how-maglev-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/magnetic-levitation-how-maglev-works","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Levitation: How Maglev Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-levitation-how-maglev-works2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding a plane? It could be possible on a Maglev train.<\/p>\n<p>Maglev \u2014 short for magnetic levitation \u2014 trains can trace their roots to technology pioneered at Brookhaven National Laboratory. James Powell and Gordon Danby of Brookhaven received the first patent for a magnetically levitated train design in the late 1960s. The idea came to Powell as he sat in a traffic jam, thinking that there must be a better way to travel on land than cars or traditional trains. He dreamed up the idea of using superconducting magnets to levitate a train car. Superconducting magnets are electromagnets that are cooled to extreme temperatures during use, which dramatically increases the power of the magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding a plane? It could be possible on a Maglev train. Maglev \u2014 short for magnetic levitation \u2014 trains can trace their roots to technology pioneered at Brookhaven National Laboratory. James Powell and Gordon Danby of Brookhaven received [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}