Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation: A Practical Handbook

One of the world's leading electrical engineers and involved in projects across the globe, Sir Philip Dawson (1866–1938) was at the forefront of the new technology of electric locomotion. Published in 1897, less than twenty years after the first successful demonstration of an electric passenger locomotive and just seven years after the opening of London's first electrified underground line, this handbook covers all aspects of the building and running of a successful electric railway, ranging from the construction of the permanent way and different means of delivering current through to financial accounting, staff organisation and discipline. Impressed by the speed of American progress, Dawson is keen to impress upon his reader the need for Europe to keep up. With some 500 illustrations, this work offers a uniquely revealing picture of the earliest days of a technology that is now taken for granted. INDICE: Note; 1. Introductory and general; 2. Permanent way; 3. The return circuit; 4. The return circuit (cont.); 5. Elevated conductor construction; 6. Erection of the trolley wire; 7. Erection of the trolley wire (cont.); 8. Motors; 9. Speed regulators; 10. Car wiring and equipment; 11. Motor trucks; 12. Car construction; 13. Car wheels and brakes; 14. The trolley; 15. The power house; 16. Generators; 17. Switchboards; 18. Central stations; 19. The West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Mass., USA; 20. Chicago City Railway; 21. City and Suburban Railway Company, Baltimore; 22. Long distance power transmissions; 23. Electric railway locomotives; 24. Electric main line railways; 25. British electric railways; 26. Combined light and power plant; 27. Open conduit systems; 28. Surface contact systems; 29. Storage batteries as applied to traction purposes; 30. Specifications; 31. Accounts and their classification; 32. The management of electric lines; 33. Organisation, discipline and rules; 34. Efficiency, maintenance and depreciation; 35. Statistics and working expenses; Appendix; Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-108-06095-0
• Editorial: Cambridge University Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 754
• Fecha Publicación: 27/06/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés