Electricity in Locomotion, by Adam Gowans Whyte, B.Sc
by Adam Gowens Whyte
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About this eBook
- Author
- Whyte, Adam Gowens, 1875-1950
- Title
- Electricity in Locomotion An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its Prospects
- Credits
- Produced by WebRover, Chris Curnow, Haragos Pál and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TF: Technology: Railroad engineering and operation
- Subject
- Electric automobiles
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 51242
- Release Date
- February 17, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ELECTRICITY IN LOCOMOTION
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.CHAPTER I THE WHEEL AND THE PUBLIC
- 5.CHAPTER II EARLY TRAMROADS AND RAILWAYS
- 6.CHAPTER III THE BIRTH OF ELECTRIC TRACTION
- 7.CHAPTER IV THE ESSENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC TRACTION ON TRAMWAYS
- 8.CHAPTER V THE MECHANISM OF AN ELECTRIC TRAMCAR: THE OVERHEAD SYSTEM
- 9.CHAPTER VI CONDUIT AND SURFACE-CONTACT TRAMWAY SYSTEMS
- 10.CHAPTER VII THE BACKWARDNESS OF ELECTRIC TRACTION IN GREAT BRITAIN
- 11.CHAPTER VIII ELECTRIC TRAMWAY STAGNATION. THE TROLLEY OMNIBUS
- 12.CHAPTER IX REGENERATIVE CONTROL
- 13.CHAPTER X ACCUMULATOR ELECTRIC TRACTION. THE ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE
- 14.CHAPTER XI PETROL-ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND MAIN MARINE PROPULSION BY ELECTRICITY
- 15.CHAPTER XII THE PIONEER ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
- 16.CHAPTER XIII ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FROM THE ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW
- 17.CHAPTER XIV ELECTRIC TRACTION ON MAIN LINE RAILWAYS
- 18.CHAPTER XV CURIOSITIES OF ELECTRIC TRACTION
- 19.CHAPTER XVI THE FUTURE
- 20.INDEX
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