Download or read book Cable Cars and Earliest Electrics written by Roy J. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1969-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cincinnati Streetcars Cable cars and earliest electrics written by Richard M. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Cable Cars written by Greg Borzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people hear "cable car" they think "San Francisco." Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the "L," Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . .
Download or read book Street and Electric Railways 1902 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Census of Electrical Industries 1902 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Electric Wires and Cables written by Robert Monro Black and published by IET. This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Street and Electric Railways written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Brief Outline of the Development and Progress of the Electric Railway Industry written by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cable Car in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United States. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hills of San Francisco. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Electrical Industries 1902 written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Loop written by Patrick T. Reardon and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago’s elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city’s economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop’s impact on the city’s development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago’s downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago’s downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago’s elevated Loop.
Download or read book Ignition and Accessories written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The System of Wire Cable Railways for Cities and Towns written by Pacific Cable Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1873, the first cable railway in the United States began operation in the hilly city of San Francisco. In subsequent years, the Clay Street Railroad was joined by many other operators throughout the U.S.A., including systems in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. The rise of the electric trolley made most cable car systems obsolete, but San Francisco's Municipal Railway managed to survive not only because of tourism, but because cable cars make for practical transportation on steep grades. Originally published in 1887, this prospectus was prepared by patent holders in hopes of attracting additional operators and investors. The document describes the cable car system and its operation in text, diagrams and rare 1880s photographs, and presents a detailed list of patents. This easy-to-read reprint of this rare text is presented in soft cover form. It is sightly larger than the original, and slightly reformatted. Care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.
Download or read book Electric Traction written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
