Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation : A Practical Handbook / Philip Dawson.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge library collection. Technology.Publisher: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1897Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 702 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139794909 (ebook)
- Electric Railways & Tramways, their Construction & Operation
- 621.33 23
- TF855 .D39 1897
Includes index.
One of the world's leading electrical engineers and involved in projects across the globe, Sir Philip Dawson (1866-1938) was at the forefront of the new technology of electric locomotion. Published in 1897, less than twenty years after the first successful demonstration of an electric passenger locomotive and just seven years after the opening of London's first electrified underground line, this handbook covers all aspects of the building and running of a successful electric railway, ranging from the construction of the permanent way and different means of delivering current through to financial accounting, staff organisation and discipline. Impressed by the speed of American progress, Dawson is keen to impress upon his reader the need for Europe to keep up. With some 500 illustrations, this work offers a uniquely revealing picture of the earliest days of a technology that is now taken for granted.
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