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- Electric Traction by James Alfred Ewing 2737904Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume XXIII — Electric TractionJames Alfred Ewing TRACTION, Electric...537 bytes (3,979 words) - 14:54, 8 August 2024
- Britannica, Volume 27 Traction by Louis Duncan 34487531911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 27 — TractionLouis Duncan TRACTION (Lat. trahere, to draw)...379 bytes (11,746 words) - 18:10, 20 January 2021
- the step-rail has many advantages. A groove collects ice and dirt, and on curves binds the wheel flanges, increasing the resistance to traction. A grooved...317 bytes (10,374 words) - 18:35, 3 April 2019
- steam traction a stronger form of rail and a better system of permanent way became necessary. Many forms of iron bearings have been devised, the rail being...452 bytes (4,966 words) - 10:00, 28 October 2023
- have been developed and used in our present street-systems of electric traction are found in Sprague's road. These features are one or two motors supported...244 bytes (1,172 words) - 00:03, 17 January 2022
- propulsion. These various methods fall into seven classes as follows: Traction by steam motors, by compressed air, by gas motors, by carbonic acid engines...269 bytes (1,572 words) - 20:32, 7 August 2017
- include roads, rivers, canals, turnpikes, railways, tramways, and rail-less electric traction; and the facilities for communication of which accounts are given...16 KB (1,941 words) - 23:47, 31 December 2021
- (1953) (external scan) New York & North Shore Traction Company' (1955) (external scan) The Long Island Rail Road: A Comprehensive History, (1961–1984) Some...1 KB (311 words) - 14:40, 18 June 2023
- Northern Ohio Traction Light Company v. Ohio ex rel Ponitius Opinion of the Court by James Clark McReynolds 859422Northern Ohio Traction Light Company...41 KB (6,207 words) - 04:29, 26 August 2021
- however, that at this time the railways were nearly all worked by horse-traction, and that the use of steam had made but little progress. Richard Trevithick...1 KB (4,247 words) - 11:54, 15 June 2022
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/The tramways of London and environs (category Rail transport)roads they run on. And the modern attempts in the form of what are called traction-engines, embody the same fallacy—all, save that of Boydell, which carries...624 bytes (1,656 words) - 03:31, 9 March 2024
- PATENT OFFICE. JOHN RUGGLES, OF THOMASTON, MAINE. LOCOMOTIVE STEAM-ENGINE FOR RAIL AND OTHER ROADS. Specification of Letters Patent No. 1, dated July 13, 1836...429 bytes (2,429 words) - 05:46, 6 September 2022
- 29Edwin A. Pratt CHAPTER XXIX TRAMWAYS, MOTOR-BUSES AND RAILLESS ELECTRIC TRACTION In previous chapters I have shown that the first great highway for the...43 KB (6,715 words) - 12:56, 11 October 2021
- Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 3/Trains and tramways (category Rail transport)against it. If the objectors once understood the theory and principle of traction, their objections would cease. It is the roughness of a road of stone in...485 bytes (1,094 words) - 01:47, 14 September 2020
- distribution which are favorable for electric traction are at present confined to this suburban business. Rail motor cars, on the other hand, are being experimented...377 bytes (980 words) - 17:14, 2 February 2023
- Matamoros Bridge Company Central California Traction Company Columbia & Cowlitz Railway Company Consolidated Rail Corporation Gary Railway Company Indiana...6 KB (733 words) - 22:07, 13 October 2011
- of eighteen months it was found that horse traction was costing only a little over one-third of the traction by locomotive. Meanwhile, also, the value...47 KB (7,066 words) - 12:57, 11 October 2021
- operated by electricity in New York, and also the lines of the Capital Traction Company, of Washington, D. C, employ this system, and they have been in...1 KB (4,742 words) - 13:19, 29 September 2018
- increasing use of traction engines is indicated by a report on the county roads issued by the Kent County Council. The number of traction engines licensed...52 KB (7,825 words) - 12:56, 11 October 2021
- metropolitan companies to experiment with electric traction, and the results were so satisfactory that electric traction is now widely adopted. He was engineer of...338 bytes (970 words) - 17:43, 19 March 2023