Abstract
THE author gives in a very concise form a brief history of the first tramways and railways, and proceeds to show how the development of electric tramways has taken place in spite of great opposition from the assthetic point of view, and also from causes arising out of the Tramways Act of 1870. The various systems of electric traction are carefully considered and the advantages of each fully discussed. Further chapters deal with the trolley omnibus, accumulator, electric traction, and regenerative control. The causes of failure of the accumulator-driven vehicle are adequately considered, and also the advantages of the trolley omnibus when acting as a feeder for electric tramways.
Electricity in Locomotion: an Account of its Mechanism, its Achievements, and its Prospects.
By Adam G. Whyte. Pp. vii + 143. (Cambridge: University Press, 1911.) Price 1s. net.
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Electricity in Locomotion: an Account of its Mechanism, its Achievements, and its Prospects . Nature 87, 212–213 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087212d0
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