INDEX
Reading edition
Acceleration, 23 et seq. on electric railways, 107, 110
Accumulators, 70 on air ships, 90 on ships, 90
Aeroplanes, 90
Alternating current, 30, 115
Automixte (petrol-electric), 85
Automobiles (electric), 70 et seq. advantages of, 80 hiring of, 75 in United States, 79
Batteries (electric), 13
Behr, F. B., 131
Blackpool, 37
Bournemouth, 38
Braking, 67
Brennan, L., 132, 134
Brighton line electrification, 117
Broadbent, F., vi, 116
Brunel, 8, 11, 17
Cab (electric), 78
City and South London Railway, 97
Conduit system, 28, 37, 126
Continuous current, 116
District Railway, 103, 119
Durtnall, W. P., 88
Dynamo, 13 reversibility of, 15, 67
Elberfeld-Barmen Railway, 125, 135
Electric traction advantages of, 19 et seq. automobiles, 70 et seq. backwardness of, 46 et seq. on main line railways, 116, 122
Faraday, 13
Ferranti, 140
Fischer (petrol-electric), 85
Giant's Causeway, 93
Griffiths-Bedell (G-B.) system, 44
Gyroscopic railways, 132
Hanging railway, 125, 135
Heilmann locomotive, 128
Kearney, E. W. C., 133
Launches (electric), 73
Light Railways Act, 58
Liverpool Overhead Railway, 97, 111
Locomotive (electric), 12, 97, 108 Heilmann, 128 turbo-electric, 129
London electric cabs in, 79 electric railways in, 97, 103 tramways in, 39, 53
Lorain system, 44
Lyttelton, A., 119
Marylebone, 81
Mavor, H., 88
Mersey railway, 97
Mono-railways, 131 et seq. gyroscopic, 132
Motor (electric), 14
Multiple-unit system, 99, 108
Omnibus (electric), 77 petrol-electric, 83
Overhead system, 17, 128
'Paragon' system (ship propulsion), 87
Petrol-electric system, 82 et seq.
Provisional Orders (Tramways), 48
Railless traction (see trolley omnibus)
Railways atmospheric, 7 cheap power for, 113 experimental electric, 16 finance of, 100 opposition to, 6 pioneer electric, 92, 96 rope, 7
Raworth, J. S., 68
Regenerative control, 67
Series-parallel system, 32, 115
Ship propulsion, 88
Siemens, vi, 14, 16, 114
Signalling (automatic), 112
Single-phase system, 120
Starting torque, 23 (see also acceleration)
Stephenson, vi, 5, 9
Storage batteries, 70 et seq.
'Stud' system, 42
Telpher system, 136
Third rail, 16
Three-phase system, 118
Torquay, 44
Trackless trolley (see trolley omnibus)
Trailers, 26
Tramcars equipment of, 31
Tramroads early, 4
Tramways accumulators on, 20 conduit, 28, 37, 126 cost of, 53 generating equipment for, 22 inter-urban, 50 legislation for, 47 municipal, 49 overhead system on, 17, 128 statistics, 27, 28 surface-contact, 28, 42
Tramways Act (1870), 95
Trolley omnibus, 56, 60 et seq. in relation to tramways, 65
Trolley system, 17, 29 et seq. bow, 31
Tube railways, 97
Turbo-electric locomotive, 129
Veto (tramway), 47, 51
Waterfalls electric power from, 94
Watt, vi
Wheatstone, 14
Wolverhampton, 44
Workmen's fares, 53
Yerkes, C. T., 104
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