Professor Eric Laithwaite: The Circle of Magnetism - 1968

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    Professor Eric Laithwaite (1921-1997) of Imperial College London demonstrates some of the most difficult concepts in electricity &​ magnetism.
    This is one of a series of 16mm colour films made for schools. They were all made in Eric Laithwaite's "Heavy Electrical Laboratory" in the Electrical Engineering Department at Imperial College London.
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Komentáře • 41

  • @mavos1211
    @mavos1211 Před 3 lety +274

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

  • @johnhammer8668
    @johnhammer8668 Před 3 lety +40

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

  • @EletrikRidesAgain
    @EletrikRidesAgain Před 11 lety +409

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

  • @pebre79
    @pebre79 Před 3 lety +97

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

  • @frazeralexander7420
    @frazeralexander7420 Před 10 lety +926

    i wish this guy had taught me

  • @franktuckwell196
    @franktuckwell196 Před 3 lety +38

    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".

  • @gtrman9706
    @gtrman9706 Před 8 lety +215

    The man was a genius !

  • @steventhehistorian
    @steventhehistorian Před 3 lety +64

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

  • @redlunch
    @redlunch Před 11 lety +460

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

  • @terranceparsons5185
    @terranceparsons5185 Před 3 lety +20

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

  • @thrunsalmighty
    @thrunsalmighty Před 10 lety +237

    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.

  • @CH-pt8fz
    @CH-pt8fz Před 3 lety +17

    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

  • @benjaminfowler3532
    @benjaminfowler3532 Před 3 lety +25

    Literally perfect analogies

  • @andrewmanrique5759
    @andrewmanrique5759 Před 10 lety +71

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

  • @Planes9905
    @Planes9905 Před 3 lety +33

    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?

  • @Michael-tq6xm
    @Michael-tq6xm Před 3 lety +137

    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.

  • @frazeralexander7420
    @frazeralexander7420 Před 10 lety +151

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

  • @wesleymercer7496
    @wesleymercer7496 Před 9 lety +24

    Thank you

  • @crossbones911
    @crossbones911 Před 10 lety +229

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

  • @BryanBarcelo
    @BryanBarcelo Před 8 lety +39

    Good stuff!

  • @bad71hd
    @bad71hd Před 3 lety +9

    We sure came full circle in the circle of magnetism!

  • @Snailmailtrucker
    @Snailmailtrucker Před 11 lety +19

    Great stuff...thanks !

  • @tarzan1638
    @tarzan1638 Před 3 lety +6

    Amazing!!!

  • @stevenhalliday7297
    @stevenhalliday7297 Před 8 lety +107

    i get the feeling John Hutchinson has watched this video.

  • @1MCFOX1
    @1MCFOX1 Před 8 lety +17

    wow thanks

  • @daniellybaert1958
    @daniellybaert1958 Před 10 lety +49

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

  • @ChristopherbergII
    @ChristopherbergII Před 9 lety +40

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

  • @x2malandy
    @x2malandy Před 3 lety +3

    Man this guy is/was good.

  • @SauceDaBoss1
    @SauceDaBoss1 Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @alejandrotrujillo8146
    @alejandrotrujillo8146 Před 3 lety +15

    no fear of mercury

  • @daydreamer05
    @daydreamer05 Před 3 lety +34

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

  • @carmageddon83
    @carmageddon83 Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @jackdwayneharper
    @jackdwayneharper Před 9 lety +131

    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!

  • @DuardoEh
    @DuardoEh Před 8 lety +59

    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.

    • @dylanwaters4883
      @dylanwaters4883 Před 3 lety +6

      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!

  • @freekingawwsome
    @freekingawwsome Před 3 lety +6

    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

  • @rh5563
    @rh5563 Před 3 lety +3

    👍👍👍

  • @frazeralexander7420
    @frazeralexander7420 Před 10 lety +41

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

  • @ericlee9146
    @ericlee9146 Před 3 lety +3

    But aluminum is not magnetic
    So how can this be

  • @georgeponiris9525
    @georgeponiris9525 Před 3 lety +14

    Who in the hell dislikes this