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]