Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 58
rendering possible what was hitherto impossible as totime and distance. This signal triumph of the century may not have been eclipsed by theintroduction of subsequent locomotive changes, but it was to be supplementedby what, at the beginning, would have passed for the idle dream of a vision-ary.… … ELECTKIC LOCOMOTIVE. The first conception of a railway to be operated by electricity dates fromabout 1835, when Thomas Davenport, of Brandon, Vt., contrived and moveda small car by means of a current from voltaic cells placed within it. In1851, Professor Page, of the Smithsonian Institution, ran a…
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