Wie auf Luft gleiten, getragen von Magneten und angetrieben von Magneten: Länger als sieben Jahrzehnte mühen sich Ingenieure schon an diesem Prinzip ab. Die Magnetschwebebahn Transrapid ist ein Stück ...
Once a German dream, the Transrapid maglev train is now China’s reality. See how Germany lost its lead in this high-speed ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has ditched plans to build a flagship high-speed rail link between the Bavarian capital Munich and its airport because of ballooning costs, Transport Minister Wolfgang ...
Iran has launched a bid to develop Germany's Transrapid high-speed magnetic train in order to ferry up to 15 million Islamic pilgrims a year along a 480-mile route linking its capital, Tehran, with ...
The idea of using magnetic levitation to run a high-speed railroad has been around since 1934, when a German scientist named Hermann Kemper received a patent on the technology. Such trains would be ...
The Transrapid in Shanghai has set a new world for commercial railway systems of 501 kmh (311 mph). The maglev (magnetic levitation) train, which has no wheels, axels, engine or transmission, broke ...