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Electricity in Locomotion

by A. Gowans Whyte

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — The Wheel and the Public
  4. 4Chapter II — Early Tramroads and Railways
  5. 5Chapter III — The Birth of Electric Traction
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Essential Advantages of Electric Traction on Tramways
  7. 7Chapter V — The Mechanism of an Electric Tramcar: The Overhead System
  8. 8Chapter VI — Conduit and Surface-Contact Tramway Systems
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Backwardness of Electric Traction in Great Britain
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Electric Tramway Stagnation. The Trolley Omnibus
  11. 11Chapter IX — Regenerative Control
  12. 12Chapter X — Accumulator Electric Traction — The Electric Automobile
  13. 13Chapter XI — Petrol-Electric Vehicles and Main Marine Propulsion by…
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Pioneer Electric Railways
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Electric Railways From the Engineering Point of View
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Electric Traction on Main Line Railways
  17. 17Chapter XV — Curiosities of Electric Traction
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Future

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