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IT is not so long since the Englishman, and perhaps more particularly the Londoner, first tasted the sweets of electric traction, but he has already found it so satisfactory, whether as a profitable investment or as a method of travelling at once omfortable, convenient and healthy, that he is clamouring for its rapid extension and development. It is beginning to be realised, too, that electricity as a motive power is not destined to be confined to metropolitan railways and suburban tramways. The electrification of our larger railways is now being discussed as a practical problem by the more far-sighted of our engineers, who have recognised that many of the railway systems characteristic of this country are peculiarly suited for electrical running. Mr. Langdon, now president of the Iqstitution of Electrical Engineers, devoted a paper read last November before that society to the subject; and Major P. Cardew, in his recently delivered Cantor Lectures, again gave prominence to the question.
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The Future of Electric Traction 1 . Nature 64, 437–438 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064437a0
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