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 759
the electric roads is only 15 per cent, morethan tliat of the horse roads, while the cable roads cost more than nine times as much as theelectric roads. The average speed of cable and of electric ears is about the same ; conse-quently the cable roads ran about four times as many cars per mile of… … Fig. 25.—Telpherage—track and motor. the latter, having an advantage in higher speed, greatly exceed in car miles run. Theelectric roads carried fewest passengers per car mile, but carried nearly as many per mile ofstreet occupied as the horse roads. On account of their more favorable location, the…
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