FROM CART TO AUTOMOBILE
When were carts first used? p. [152]—The development of the bicycle, p. [154]—The pneumatic tire introduced, p. [155]—The coming of the automobile, p. [156]—The gas engine of Dr. Otto, p. [157]—Cugnot's automobile, p. [158]—The automobile of William Murdoch, 1785, p. [158]—Opposition in England to the introduction of automobiles, p. [159]—An extraordinary piece of legislation, p. [161]—Scientific aspects of automobile racing, p. [164]—Some records made at Ormonde, p. [165]—Records made by Oldfield in 1910, p. [166]—Comparative speeds of various vehicles and animals, p. [167]—Speed of birds in flight, p. [168]—A miraculous transformation of energy, p. [170]—Electrical timing device for measuring automobile speeds, p. [171].
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
New York the first city to have a street railway, p. [175]—Cable systems, p. [177]—Early self-sustained systems, p. [178]—The electro-magnetic locomotive of Moses G. Farmer, p. [179]—The efforts of Professor Page to produce a storage battery car, p. [180]—The experiments of Siemens and Halske with electric motors, p. [181]—The Edison electric locomotive, p. [182]—Third rails and trolleys, p. [184]—The inventions of Daft and Van Depoele, p. [185]—The work of Frank J. Sprague in developing electric railways, p. [186]—How the word "trolley" was coined, p. [187]—Storage battery systems, p. [188]—The Edison storage battery car of 1910, p. [189]—Monorail systems, p. [191]—Electric aerial monorail systems, p. [193].
THE GYROCAR
Mr. Louis Brennan's car exhibited before the Royal Society in London, p. [195]—How the gyroscope is installed on this car, p. [196]—Gyroscopic action explained, p. [197]—Why does the spinning wheel exert gyroscopic power? p. [199]—Mr. Brennan's model car, p. [200]—The "wabble" of the gyroscope explained, p. [202]—How the Brennan gyroscopes work, p. [203]—Technical explanation of the gyroscope, p. [204]—The evolution of an idea, p. [213]—Sir Henry Bessemer's experiment, p. [214]—What may be expected of the gyrocar, p. [215].
THE GYROSCOPE AND OCEAN TRAVEL