London electric cabs in, 79 electric railways in, 97, 103 tramways in, 39, 53 Lorain system, 44 Lyttelton, A., 119 Marylebone, 81 Mavor, H., 88 Mersey railway, 97 Mono-railways, 131 _et seq._ gyroscopic, 132 Motor (electric), 14 Multiple-unit system, 99, 108 Omnibus (electric), 77 petrol-electric, 83 Overhead system, 17, 128 'Paragon' system (ship propulsion), 87 Petrol-electric system, 82 _et seq._ Provisional Orders (Tramways), 48 Railless traction (_see_ trolley omnibus) Railways atmospheric, 7 cheap power for, 113 experimental electric, 16 finance of, 100 opposition to, 6 pioneer electric, 92, 96 rope, 7 Raworth, J. S., 68 Regenerative control, 67 Series-parallel system, 32, 115 Ship propulsion, 88 Siemens, vii, 14, 16, 114 Signalling (automatic), 112 Single-phase system, 120 Starting torque, 23 (_see_ also acceleration) Stephenson, vii, 5, 9 Storage batteries, 70 _et seq._ 'Stud' system, 42 Telpher system, 136 Third rail, 16 Three-phase system, 118 Torquay, 44 Trackless trolley (_see_ trolley omnibus) Trailers, 26 Tramcars equipment of, 31 Tramroads early, 4 Tramways accumulators on, 20 conduit, 28, 37, 126 cost of, 53 generating equipment for, 22 inter-urban, 50 legislation for, 47 municipal, 49 overhead system on, 17, 128 statistics, 27, 28 surface-contact, 28, 42 Tramways Act (1870), 95 Trolley omnibus, 56, 60 _et seq._ in relation to tramways, 65 Trolley system 17, 29 _et seq._ bow, 31 Tube railways, 97 Turbo-electric locomotive, 129 Veto (tramway), 47, 51 Waterfalls electric power from, 94 Watt, vii Wheatstone, 14 Wolverhampton, 44 Workmen's fares, 53 Yerkes, C. T., 104 _Cambridge:_ PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS Transcriber's Note: Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Bolds are indicated by =equal signs=. Small capitals have been rendered in full capitals. Footnote is placed to the end of chapter. A number of minor spelling errors have been corrected without note. End of Project Gutenberg's Electricity in Locomotion, by Adam Gowens Whyte