Electric Traction: A Treatise on the Application of Electric Power to Tramways and Railways

Abstract

IN electric traction the questions that have to be discussed may be broadly classified under two headings—technical and financial. The author touches on the latter class incidentally, and then only because it is impossible to leave financial considerations out of account altogether. In the former class he has not included descriptions of generating stations and transmission lines. Even with these restrictions, however, it is only by the severest compression that he has managed in a single volume to give the necessary descriptions of the line, the rolling stock, the appliances and apparatus used in electric traction, and to touch on most of the technical and theoretical considerations involved. We congratulate the author on having succeeded in writing a treatise which engineers and advanced students will find most useful. He is evidently well read in the literature of the subject, most of which is published in the Proceedings of various engineering societies and technical journals, both in this country and abroad, and is therefore inaccessible to many.

Electric Traction: A Treatise on the Application of Electric Power to Tramways and Railways.

By A. T. Dover. Pp. xix + 667 + 5 folding plates. (London: Whittaker and Co., 1917.) Price 18s. net.