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.