Adam Gowans Whyte

Electricity in Locomotion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1911 text contains an informative account of the role of electricity in the development of various forms of locomotion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 171g
• ISBN-13: 9781107605985
• ISBN-10: 1107605989
• Artikelnr.: 34752994

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The wheel and the public
2. Early tramroads and railways
3. The birth of electric traction
4. The essential advantages of electric traction on tramways
5. The mechanism of an electric tramcar: the overhead system
6. Conduit and surface-contact tramway systems
7. The backwardness of electric traction in Great Britain
8. Electric tramway stagnation. The trolley omnibus
9. Regenerative control
10. Accumulator electric traction. The electric automobile
11. Petrol-electric vehicles and main marine propulsion by electricity
12. The pioneer electric railways
13. Electric railways from the engineering point of view
14. Electric traction on main line railways
15. Curiosities of electric traction
16. The future
Index.