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British Rail's Flying Saucer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the to-manchester-and-beyond dept.

Dynamoo writes "The Register is carrying a story about a patent for a fusion powered spacecraft filed by British Rail in the 1970s. While the concept may seem silly for a public railway, it seems that the British Rail Research Division employed a large number of aircraft engineers who presumably had some spare time between projects such as the Advanced Passenger Train."

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  1. Re:Other patents... by Zarhan · · Score: 4, Informative

    What's more interesting is a system I saw years ago that was supposed to recognize whether a cat was carrying something in its mouth (like a mouse) by looking at its profile. No more "presents" left for you to step on when you get out of bed in the morning.

    You mean Flo control is patented? (See picture on page 2, ie. click next)