Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 749
of interest in the subjectof electric railways in America, as elsewhere. At the Chicago Railway Exposition, in May,1883, Mr. Field exhibited the electric locomotive named The Judge. The track ran 720 KAILROAD, ELECTRIC. around the gallery of the main exhibition building, curving sharply at either… … Fio. ].—Daft electric motor. Railway was tlie (irst constructed in this country for business purposes, and was opened onJune 9 and closed June 23, having run in all 44G.24 miles. It carried 2(5,805 passengers.It was afterward sent to the Louisville Exposition during the same year, and tliere…
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