Electricity in Locomotion

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Adam Gowens Whyte. Electricity in Locomotion

Electricity in Locomotion

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. THE WHEEL AND THE PUBLIC

CHAPTER II. EARLY TRAMROADS AND RAILWAYS

CHAPTER III. THE BIRTH OF ELECTRIC TRACTION

CHAPTER IV. THE ESSENTIAL ADVANTAGES OF ELECTRIC TRACTION ON TRAMWAYS

CHAPTER V. THE MECHANISM OF AN ELECTRIC TRAMCAR: THE OVERHEAD SYSTEM

CHAPTER VI. CONDUIT AND SURFACE-CONTACT TRAMWAY SYSTEMS

CHAPTER VII. THE BACKWARDNESS OF ELECTRIC TRACTION IN GREAT BRITAIN

CHAPTER VIII. ELECTRIC TRAMWAY STAGNATION. THE TROLLEY OMNIBUS

CHAPTER IX. REGENERATIVE CONTROL

CHAPTER X. ACCUMULATOR ELECTRIC TRACTION. THE ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE

CHAPTER XI. PETROL-ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND MAIN MARINE PROPULSION BY ELECTRICITY

CHAPTER XII. THE PIONEER ELECTRIC RAILWAYS

CHAPTER XIII. ELECTRIC RAILWAYS FROM THE ENGINEERING POINT OF VIEW

CHAPTER XIV. ELECTRIC TRACTION ON MAIN LINE RAILWAYS

CHAPTER XV. CURIOSITIES OF ELECTRIC TRACTION

CHAPTER XVI. THE FUTURE

INDEX

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Adam Gowens Whyte

An Account of Its Mechanism, Its Achievements, and Its Prospects

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The story of electric traction really begins in the laboratory of Faraday. He was the first to produce mechanical rotation by electrical means; and, although he had no practical end in view, his investigations produced the germ of the commercial dynamo and thence of the commercial electric motor.

That germ, however, took about half a century to develop. It is true that in 1837 (about ten years after Faraday's discovery) Robert Davidson experimented with an electric locomotive on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; it is also true that Jacobi, two years later, propelled a boat on the Neva with electric power. But these early attempts were not on a commercial scale. Not only was the motor a crude contrivance, but the method of producing the electric power was hopelessly extravagant.

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