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
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… … Flo. 2.—Electric railway —troKey system. largo number of jiassengers. JNIr. Thomas A. Edisons work in electric railroading dates backto the spring of 1880, when he built a track at Menlo Park, X. J., near his laboratory. Thisline was less than half a mile in length. Toward the close of 1883, the…
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