Electrical Traction: publication of 1912

Abstract

Press ArchivesThe Journal presents a selection of two articles each of them first appeared in the journal «Railway Business» in 1912.They demonstrate the interest that was paid more than a century ago towards electrified railways considering technical (choice of electric power supply system, traction current) and economic advantages compared to steam locomotive traction.The material in some ways echoes the content of the article published in the issue on the development of transport science and the chronology of industrial revolutions.When reproducing the publication, the style, punctuation, and vocabulary of that time are preserved as much as possible.