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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    27 June 2013
    ISBN:
    9781139794909
    9781108060950
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794909
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (297 x 210 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.77kg, 754 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science, Engineering, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science, Engineering, Engineering: General Interest, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering, General Science
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    One of the world's leading electrical engineers and involved in projects across the globe, Sir Philip Dawson (1866–1938) was at the forefront of the new technology of electric locomotion. Published in 1897, less than twenty years after the first successful demonstration of an electric passenger locomotive and just seven years after the opening of London's first electrified underground line, this handbook covers all aspects of the building and running of a successful electric railway, ranging from the construction of the permanent way and different means of delivering current through to financial accounting, staff organisation and discipline. Impressed by the speed of American progress, Dawson is keen to impress upon his reader the need for Europe to keep up. With some 500 illustrations, this work offers a uniquely revealing picture of the earliest days of a technology that is now taken for granted.

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