Electricity in Locomotion / An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its Prospects

by Adam Gowens Whyte

INDEX

• Acceleration, [23] et seq.
  • on electric railways, [107], [110]
• Accumulators, [70]
  • on air ships, [90]
  • on ships, [90]
• Aeroplanes, [90]
• Alternating current, [30], [115]
• Automixte (petrol-electric), [85]
• Automobiles (electric), [70] et seq.
  • advantages of, [80]
  • hiring of, [75]
  • in United States, [79]

• Batteries (electric), [13]
• Behr, F. B., [131]
• Blackpool, [37]
• Bournemouth, [38]
• Braking, [67]
• Brennan, L., [132], [134]
• Brighton line electrification, [117]
• Broadbent, F., [vi], [116]
• Brunel, [8], [11], [17]

• Cab (electric), [78]
• City and South London Railway, [97]
• Conduit system, [28], [37], [126]
• Continuous current, [116]

• District Railway, [103], [119]
• Durtnall, W. P., [88]
• Dynamo, [13]
  • reversibility of, [15], [67]

• Elberfeld-Barmen Railway, [125], [135]
• Electric traction
  • advantages of, [19] et seq.
  • automobiles, [70] et seq.
  • backwardness of, [46] et seq.
  • on main line railways, [116], [122]

• Faraday, [13]
• Ferranti, [140]
• Fischer (petrol-electric), [85]

• Giant's Causeway, [93]
• Griffiths-Bedell (G-B.) system, [44]
• Gyroscopic railways, [132]

• Hanging railway, [125], [135]
• Heilmann locomotive, [128]

• Kearney, E. W. C., [133]

• Launches (electric), [73]
• Light Railways Act, [58]
• Liverpool Overhead Railway, [97], [111]
• Locomotive (electric), [12], [97], [108]
  • Heilmann, [128]
  • turbo-electric, [129]
• London
  • electric cabs in, [79]
  • electric railways in, [97], [103]
  • tramways in, [39], [53]
• Lorain system, [44]
• Lyttelton, A., [119]

• Marylebone, [81]
• Mavor, H., [88]
• Mersey railway, [97]
• Mono-railways, [131] et seq.
  • gyroscopic, [132]
• Motor (electric), [14]
• Multiple-unit system, [99], [108]

• Omnibus (electric), [77]
  • petrol-electric, [83]
• Overhead system, [17], [128]

• 'Paragon' system (ship propulsion), [87]
• Petrol-electric system, [82] et seq.
• Provisional Orders (Tramways), [48]

• Railless traction (see [trolley omnibus])
• Railways
  • atmospheric, [7]
  • cheap power for, [113]
  • experimental electric, [16]
  • finance of, [100]
  • opposition to, [6]
  • pioneer electric, [92], [96]
  • rope, [7]
• Raworth, J. S., [68]
• Regenerative control, [67]

• Series-parallel system, [32], [115]
• Ship propulsion, [88]
• Siemens, [vi], [14], [16], [114]
• Signalling (automatic), [112]
• Single-phase system, [120]
• Starting torque, [23] (see also [acceleration])
• Stephenson, [vi], [5], [9]
• Storage batteries, [70] et seq.
• 'Stud' system, [42]

• Telpher system, [136]
• Third rail, [16]
• Three-phase system, [118]
• Torquay, [44]
• Trackless trolley (see [trolley omnibus])
• Trailers, [26]
• Tramcars
  • equipment of, [31]
• Tramroads
  • early, [4]
• Tramways
  • accumulators on, [20]
  • conduit, [28], [37], [126]
  • cost of, [53]
  • generating equipment for, [22]
  • inter-urban, [50]
  • legislation for, [47]
  • municipal, [49]
  • overhead system on, [17], [128]
  • statistics, [27], [28]
  • surface-contact, [28], [42]
• Tramways Act (1870), [95]
• Trolley omnibus, [56], [60] et seq.
  • in relation to tramways, [65]
• Trolley system, [17], [29] et seq.
  • bow, [31]
• Tube railways, [97]
• Turbo-electric locomotive, [129]

• Veto (tramway), [47], [51]

• Waterfalls
  • electric power from, [94]
• Watt, [vi]
• Wheatstone, [14]
• Wolverhampton, [44]
• Workmen's fares, [53]

• Yerkes, C. T., [104]

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