Jewish Invention Myths: Maglev Trains

Sometimes jewish invention claims seem to be solid until you start digging: the claim that jews invented Maglev technology is a great example of just that.

Superficially the claim by ‘MNews’ that the concept of the Maglev train was proposed by a jewish physicist named Boris Weinberg in Russia looks solid.

They write that:

‘Boris Petrovich Weinberg – Electrical maglev road

Geophysicist, physicist and glaciologist Boris Weinberg created a magnetic levitation road.’ (1)

It is certainly true that Weinberg suggested a maglev style train in 1913 (2) and this has been widely credited to Weinberg for propagandistic purposes since Weinberg was a prominent jewish scientist in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. (3)

The problem is that Weinberg ‘inventing’ the idea, the technology or even the first working model of a maglev train is complete and utter nonsense.

The first patent proposing maglev technology was successfully filed in the United States in 1902 by Albert Albertson (4) and the German inventor Alfred Zehden was awarded a US patent for his maglev train idea in 1905. (5) By 1904 American academic and engineer Robert Goddard had already outlined his vision for a maglev train system (6) while in 1912 French inventor Emile Bachelet first demonstrated maglev technology in action using his prototype model maglev railway (7) and was awarded an appropriate US patent for it. (8)

All did Weinberg was take the technology proposed and built by others, improve it slightly and introduce it to Russia!

Scratch another jewish invention myth.

References

(1) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions

(2) Hugo Gernsback, 1917, ‘Travelling at 500 Miles Per Hour in the Future Electric Railway’, The Electrical Experimenter, Vol. 4, No. 11, p. 794

(3) For example: https://www.rbth.com/news/2013/08/19/russian_ideas_inspire_californias_hyperloop_plan_29029.html

(4) https://patents.google.com/patent/US714851

(5) https://patents.google.com/patent/US782312

(6) https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/maglev-train.htm; https://www.britannica.com/technology/maglev-train

(7) Ibid.; https://www.maglevboard.net/en/about/in-memoriam/371-emile-bachelet

(8) https://patents.google.com/patent/US1020942