Dr. Richard Thornton of MagneMotion to Present at the ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference 2004

Acton, Massachusetts (March 08, 2004)

MagneMotion Inc. of Acton, MA today announced that Dr. Richard Thornton, President of MagneMotion, will present a paper entitled “Linear Synchronous Motor Propulsion of Small Transit Vehicles” at the 2004 ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference. The paper was written in conjunction with Dr. Tracy Clark and Dr. Brian Perreault, also of MagneMotion.

The paper addresses the design, use and cost benefits associated with deploying Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) technology for urban rapid transit systems, using MagneMotion’s M3 urban Magnetic Levitation (maglev) transport system as an example. The paper will prove that large capacity trains, or high speed trains, or a combination thereof, do not necessarily translate into faster travel times when compared with smaller vehicles that can accelerate quickly and travel with shorter headway between vehicles.

Dr. Richard Thornton, a co-founder of MagneMotion, is a pioneer in the development of maglev technology and holds many maglev patents. Dr. Thornton is a Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Fellow of IEEE. Dr. Brian Perreault and Dr. Tracy Clark, also co-founders of MagneMotion, hold ScD degrees in engineering from MIT. Dr. Perreault is also a U.S. Department of Transportation Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Award winner.

The 2004 Joint Rail Conference runs from April 6 to April 8, 2004, in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information on the conference, please visit www.asmeconferences.org/jrc04

MagneMotion is an industry leader in the development of linear synchronous motor and magnetic levitation technologies. Founded in 1996, MagneMotion is developing an urban maglev system in cooperation with the Federal Transit Administration and has teamed with Federal Equipment Co. of Cincinnati, OH to develop an LSM-based automated weapons elevator for the next generation aircraft carrier.

MagneMotion also designs and manufactures the QuickStick™ LSM, a modular, high-throughput LSM that can be used to propel vehicles in a variety of transport applications such as material handling and assembly automation. MagneMotion is a privately held company. For more information on MagneMotion Inc., please visit the company website: www.magnemotion.com.

For more information please contact MagneMotion at info@magnemotion.com.

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