Electricity Applied to Railways

Excerpt from Electricity Applied to Railways: Treating of the Utilization of Electricity as a Motive Power and Its Adaptation to the Telegraph, the Telephone and Wireless Telegraphy My first connection with railways was partly associated with the telegraph department of the service, and in this way I became interested and familiar with electrical enterprises and ambi tions, as intimated above. Electrical science was, however, in an embryonic state when I ceased to concern myself with it in a practical way. 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.