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  • 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

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