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Professor Eric Laithwaite of Imperial College, London developed the first full-size working model of the linear induction motor In the late 1940s.

This was the first system which allowed the train to both hover and move using the same motor.

Earlier systems of magnetic propulsion do exist, with or without 'levitating', but Professor Laithwaite was the first person to actually make a full-sized maglev.

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