Editing Maglev (section)

=== New York, United States, 1912 ===
In 1912 French-American inventor [[Émile Bachelet]] demonstrated a model train with electromagnetic levitation and propulsion in Mount Vernon, New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=Here's an Aerial Vehicle Which Darts Along Poised Above Its Roadway|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-06-02/ed-1/seq-21/|work=[[New-York Tribune]] |date=2 June 1912 |pages=5, 7 |access-date=16 July 2023|archive-date=16 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716012839/https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-06-02/ed-1/seq-21/|url-status=live}}</ref> Bachelet's first related patent, {{US patent|1020942}} was granted in 1912. The electromagnetic propulsion was by attraction of iron in the train by direct current solenoids spaced along the track. The electromagnetic levitation was due to repulsion of the aluminum base plate of the train by the pulsating current electromagnets under the track. The pulses were generated by Bachelet's own Synchronizing-interrupter {{US patent|986039}} supplied with 220 VAC. As the train moved it switched power to the section of track that it was on. Bachelet went on to demonstrate his model in London, England in 1914, which resulted in the registration of Bachelet Levitated Railway Syndicate Limited July 9 in London, just weeks before the start of WWI.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Macnair |first1=Miles |title=Emile Bachelet (1863–1946): The Showman and the Flying Train |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |date=July 2008 |volume=78 |issue=2 |pages=235–260 |doi=10.1179/175035208X317693 }}</ref>

Bachelet's second related patent, {{US patent|1020943}} granted the same day as the first, had the levitation electromagnets in the train and the track was aluminum plate. In the patent he stated that this was a much cheaper construction, but he did not demonstrate it.