- 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
- 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
- Launches (electric), 73
- Light Railways Act, 58
- Liverpool Overhead Railway, 97, 111
- Locomotive (electric), 12, 97, 108
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