Émile Bachelet

After discovering therapeutic qualities of magnetic fields especially with arthritis patients, he began to commercialize this practice.

which was meant to transfer mail and small packages on a cart which was levitated above a track of electromagnets.

In 1912 Bachelet demonstrated a model to the press in Mount Vernon, New York.

Winston Churchill who assisted the demonstration said it was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen in his life.

[7][8][9] The Bachelet Levitated Railway Syndicate Limited was registered 1914 Jul 9 in London, just weeks before the start of WWI.