1.   In other strategies to go commercial fast, Unique Mobility recently signed a contract to make motors for the Invacare Corporation, the producer of motorized wheelchairs.

2.   Manufacturers eventually made smaller motors, compressors and coils that could fit in self-contained units.

3.   Schaeffer makes small motors that help control the motion of spacecraft.

4.   The motor is made from a plastic globe embedded with magnets and spun by computer-controlled electromagnets that tug on it at the command of complex software.