Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. (1916)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 118
action, for until a good source of electric power was devised,all of these attempts were commercial failures. It was in 1879, at the exposition at Berlin, Germany, that a suc-cessful car was shown and operated, drawing a number of trailersfilled with passengers. The car was simply a Siemens motor… … 99 4 ELECTRIC RAILWAYS ation in the suburbs of Berlin in 188L In this country, from 1880 to1885, there were many experimenters trying to make electric cars,particularly locomotives. The *names of Stephen D. Field, ThomasA. Edison, Frank J. Sprague, Charles J. Van de Poele, Leo Daft,Sydney H. Short,…
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