| | PAGE | | Preface | v | | CHAP. | | | | I. | The Wheel and the Public | 1 | | II. | Early Tramroads and Railways | 4 | | III. | The Birth of Electric Traction | 12 | | IV. | The Essential Advantages of Electric Traction on Tramways | 19 | | V. | The Mechanism of an Electric Tramcar: the Overhead System | 29 | | VI. | Conduit and Surface-Contact Tramway Systems | 37 | | VII. | The Backwardness of Electric Traction in Great Britain | 46 | | VIII. | Electric Tramway Stagnation. The Trolley Omnibus | 55 | | IX. | Regenerative Control | 67 | | X. | Accumulator Electric Traction. The Electric Automobile | 70 | | XI. | Petrol-Electric Vehicles and main Marine Propulsion by Electricity | 82 | | XII. | The Pioneer Electric Railways | 92 | | XIII. | Electric Railways from the Engineering Point of View | 107 | | XIV. | Electric Traction on Main Line Railways | 116 | | XV. | Curiosities of Electric Traction | 124 | | XVI. | The Future | 138 | | Index | 142 |
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