Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 552
g printe(jj the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad will have begunoperating its suburban trains from New York by electricity. Forthis service locomotives built by the General Electric Company,Schenectady, New York, will be in commission. Each will de-velop 2,200 to 3,000 horse-power. In… … ELECTRIC LOCOMOTION 477 whereas a Pacific steam locomotive required 203 seconds; animportant difference, especially where stops are frequent. Eachlocomotive, with its train of cars, weighed 513 tons. The steamlocomotive with its tender weighed 171 tons; its electric rivalweighed but 100 tons. So…
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