Philip Dawson

Electric Railways and Tramways, Their Construction and Operation

A Practical Handbook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This highly illustrated 1897 handbook by a leading electrical engineer offers unique insights into the earliest days of electric locomotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 754
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1919g
• ISBN-13: 9781108060950
• ISBN-10: 1108060951
• Artikelnr.: 37721824

Inhaltsangabe

Note
1. Introductory and general
2. Permanent way
3. The return circuit
4. The return circuit (cont.)
5. Elevated conductor construction
6. Erection of the trolley wire
7. Erection of the trolley wire (cont.)
8. Motors
9. Speed regulators
10. Car wiring and equipment
11. Motor trucks
12. Car construction
13. Car wheels and brakes
14. The trolley
15. The power house
16. Generators
17. Switchboards
18. Central stations
19. The West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Mass., USA
20. Chicago City Railway
21. City and Suburban Railway Company, Baltimore
22. Long distance power transmissions
23. Electric railway locomotives
24. Electric main line railways
25. British electric railways
26. Combined light and power plant
27. Open conduit systems
28. Surface contact systems
29. Storage batteries as applied to traction purposes
30. Specifications
31. Accounts and their classification
32. The management of electric lines
33. Organisation, discipline and rules
34. Efficiency, maintenance and depreciation
35. Statistics and working expenses
Appendix
Index.