Transrapid

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

Transrapid (German: [tʁansʁaˈpiːt] ) is a German-developed high-speed train using magnetic levitation. Planning for the system started in the late 1960s, with a test facility in Emsland, Germany, inaugurated in 1983.

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