Download or read book Electric Traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad 1895 1968 written by Michael Bezilla and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive case study of railroad electrification in the United States, this pioneering book highlights a subject of current government and industry studies and a target of billions of dollars of Amtrak rehabilitation funds. Both energy conservation and environmental quality remain at stake together with transportation efficiency. Electric traction on the Pennsylvania Railroad was a technological success handicapped by an economic factor: the onetime relatively low cost of petroleum, which gave diesel locomotives and highway vehicles a temporary advantage. Today the growing cost advantage of electricity--generated with coal; atomic energy; water, wind, and solar power--prefigures a revival of electric railroad traction. Drawing upon previously untapped records of the PRR and its suppliers, notably General Electric, the author traces stages in cooperative risk management. First came challenges of limited scope which steam locomotives were unable to meet: the New York City tunnel extension of 1910 and the Philadelphia suburban modernization begun in 1913. Next came a decade of mainline electrification, 1928-38: first New York to Washington and then passenger and freight extensions to Harrisburg. These projects were preceded by large-scale research and experimentation, followed by constant improvement in equipment and operations. Electric traction is depicted as a program involving not only the railroad but also its consultants, equipment and energy suppliers, and (to a lesser degree) governmental bodies. Locomotive and power transmission design is described in detail--with copious illustrations--as are the creative achievements of managers, engineers, and workers. And the presentation will be clear to readers without specialized technical or business backgrounds.
Download or read book Electric Traction With 14 Tables and 333 Illustrations written by Robert Henry SMITH (M.I.Mech.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Electric Traction A Practical Handbook With 194 Illustrations written by John Hall RIDER and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electrical Traction Volume 1 written by Ernest Wilson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Electric Traction written by A. H. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Electronics and Electric Drives for Traction Applications written by Gonzalo Abad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Electronics and Electric Drives for Traction Applications offers a practical approach to understanding power electronics applications in transportation systems ranging from railways to electric vehicles and ships. It is an application-oriented book for the design and development of traction systems accompanied by a description of the core technology. The first four introductory chapters describe the common knowledge and background required to understand the preceding chapters. After that, each application-specific chapter: highlights the significant manufacturers involved; provides a historical account of the technological evolution experienced; distinguishes the physics and mechanics; and where possible, analyses a real life example and provides the necessary models and simulation tools, block diagrams and simulation based validations. Key features: Surveys power electronics state-of-the-art in all aspects of traction applications. Presents vital design and development knowledge that is extremely important for the professional community in an original, simple, clear and complete manner. Offers design guidelines for power electronics traction systems in high-speed rail, ships, electric/hybrid vehicles, elevators and more applications. Application-specific chapters co-authored by traction industry expert. Learning supplemented by tutorial sections, case studies and MATLAB/Simulink-based simulations with data from practical systems. A valuable reference for application engineers in traction industry responsible for design and development of products as well as traction industry researchers, developers and graduate students on power electronics and motor drives needing a reference to the application examples.
Download or read book Electrical Traction written by Ernest Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Traction for Railway Trains written by Edward Parris Burch and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric Traction for Railway Trains: A Book for Students, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Superintendents of Motive Power and Others by Edward Parris Burch, first published in 1911, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Electrical Traction written by Ernest Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electrical Traction In the following pages I have endeavoured to deal with the principles relating to "Electrical Traction," and I have, I hope, incorporated sufficient descriptive matter for the purpose of illustrating the subjects treated of. Much of the information with regard to the Leeds Tramways which will be found in the text is given for the first time. I have also included descriptions of certain experiments which I have made for the purpose of this work. Descriptive matter and illustrations have been obtained from several sources, especially from the Journals of the Institutions of Civil and Electrical Engineers, and the Northern Society of Electrical Engineers, Engineering, the Railway World, and a Report of the Corporation of Sheffield on "Tramway Traction." I have received much valuable information and many illustrations from the Westinghouse and the British Thomson-Houston Companies, for which I wish to express my obligations and thanks. Mr. R. W. Blackwell has also kindly lent me some illustrations. 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.
Download or read book ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAY written by Edward Parris 1870 Burch and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Traction Classic Reprint written by Robert Henry Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electric Traction One special feature the author hopes may be regarded as a merit namely this, that it deals not only with dynamic and constructional principles and details, but also with commercial results and economic conditions. The author holds strongly that technical students should direct their attention much more to this side of technics than is now usual. The physical side is only one half of engineering science; and no technical science will ever be rationally complete, nor will it ever win the full confidence and respect of the practical world, until it rests equally upon the two true bases of physical and economic law which together govern all industry. Since this book deals with European work alone, it is necessary to say that the author has always been among those who have insisted upon the great debt that Europe owes to America in regard to Electric Traction. Although Europe, and not America, is the native home of nearly all original ideas in this department of engineering, still it was in America that the world learnt all its important early practical lessons and gained the great bulk of its first practical experience. The reasons for confining the book to European practice have been twofold. The author labours under a constitutional inability to write about things he has not seen with his own eyes and examined for himself, while he has had very limited opportunity for more than cursory observation of trans-atlantic work. Then, again, the most recent and progressive developments of traction design are to be seen here, and not there. American electric-traction engineering has already become standardized and conservative: its European pupil is still eagerly striving after new and higher things. 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.
Download or read book ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAY written by Edward P. (Edward Parris) 1870-1 Burch and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Traction written by A H Armstrong and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Electric Traction and Transmission Engineering With 127 Illustrations written by Samuel Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Traction for Railway Trains a Book for Students Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Superintendents of Motive Power and Others written by Edward Parris Burch and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electric Traction written by Alfred Thomas Dover and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
