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I HAVE within the last few days received a letter from a friend in Paris, who writes that he had last week travelled on the electric railway in that city. There is still much, he adds, to be done before it can be brought into general use; but nevertheless the train moved satisfactorily. There were fifty-four passengers in the carriage, which was propelled by a large Gramme machine and 160 cells of Faure's battery. The experiments are to be recommenced very shortly with a new motor by M. de Méritens, and a Faure's battery.
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SPOTTISWOODE, W. The Electric Railway in Paris. Nature 24, 164 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024164a0
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