The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 207
ml^er of people to businessevery week-day morning and carry them back at night.They maintain thirty-six miles of double track road, whichcost a total of thirty-five million dollars. New York also maintains cable-roads on One Hundredand Twenty-fiflh Street, Broadway, and on Third Avenue. 198 WONDERS… … CABLE-DRIVESG PLANT, AS DESIGNED BY ROBERT POOLE & SON. In fact, a successful conduit-electric system has been inoperation in Buda-Pesth since 1889, being built on theplans of Siemens and Halske. Americans seem not tohave been so successful, but they can now profit by copy-ing the good points…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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