Electric Traction A Treatise On The Application Of Elec Power To Tramways And Railways

Author : Robert Henry Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330118719
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Electric Traction written by Robert Henry Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Traction The Engineering Of Electric Traction has already thrown that of Electric Lighting into the shade, and yet the development of Electric Railways has only just begun. When it has reached only the earliest stage of vigorous adolescence, it will be found to bring in its train a great further development of Electric Tramways, because then there will be recognized the fact that one of the great functions of Tramways is to act as feeders to Railways and the present antagonism between Railways and Tramways will have died out. The progress of invention in electrical engineering is now so rapid, and especially so in regard both to Tramways and Railways, that it is hard to keep a treatise upon any electrical subject fully up to date. But in the production of this book the publishers have co-operated with the author in much effort to make it fully representative of the most recent practice right up to the date of publication. This would have been impossible except for the kind assistance in supplying the latest information and designs very generously given by numerous tramway and railway managers, chief engineers, and manufacturers. The author desires to offer his best thanks to all who have helped him in this way; and trusts that even the electrical engineer and manager of experience and detailed knowledge may find some convenience in the book, in that it collects within small bulk a large amount of scattered information in respect of at least the most practically important features of Electric Traction. The book, however, is mainly written in the hope that it may be useful in the instruction of students of technical electrical engineering. It keeps strictly to its subject of traction and leaves entirely to other treatises all explanations of electrical machinery and electrical action that are general and common to the whole of electrical engineering. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.