Industrial-type electromagnetic rams for use in motion picture production, flight simulation, medical treatment and rehabilitative physical therapy, entertainment, namely interactive home and arcade video games and simulation rides, vehicle steering and suspension mechanisms, bomb disposal robots, military weapons systems, namely armament handling and loading systems and recoil suppressers and weapons elevation and aiming and stabilizers, elevators for commercial and residential use, military and commercial shipbuilding, namely davits and capstans and windlasses and watertight doors and cargo lifts and aircraft lifts and handling and discharge of torpedoes; operation of watertight doors; turret drives, doors, hatches, suspension, drive steering, and weapons loading for armored vehicles, aircraft tugs, aircraft suspension, vibration isolation, laser aiming devices, forging presses, mechanical presses, molding machines, bending and punching machines, plastic mold injectors, industrial and domestic elevators, combine harvesters, pumps, aircraft doors, aircraft control surfaces, helicopter control servos, hanger doors, cranes, winches, pile driving, robotics, and excavators