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
tem. Theroad was equipped from the ele-vated railway station at FourteenthStreet up to Fifty-ninth Street, adistance of two miles, in which aheavy grade is encountered. Themotor used was named 13enjaminFranklin, with which a speed of20 miles an hour was attained. Fig.1 is a side elevation of this… … Fig. 3.—Electric conductor supports. first railway operated under the Charles J. Van Depoele system was laid in Chicago in thewinter of 1882-3. The Bentley-Knight Electric Railway Co. made an experimental installa-tion of their conduit system on the tracks of the East Cleveland Horse Railway Co.…
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