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Electric Traction: Railway Electrification and a Second Current War
Three milestones in which electricity moved into railway traction, and in which the alternating-versus-direct argument was fought again under different constraints.
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Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Railways. 6 pages.
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Moving People and Goods: Transport Engineering 1845-1950
A structured reference series covering nineteen milestones in marine, road and rail engineering over the century in which transport became a question of running economically and…
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Networks of Movement: Transcontinental Rail, Cable Traction and the Great Wheel
Three projects, three constraints, one lesson: at civil scale the hard engineering is in measurement, power distribution and load path, not in the visible structure.
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Prime Movers: The Internal Combustion Engine and Diesel-Electric Traction
Spark ignition against compression ignition, why compression ratio governs efficiency, and how diesel-electric traction solved the transmission problem by deleting it.
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Steam Afloat and on Rails: Wilkinson, Trevithick, Fulton and Rainhill
Four milestones in which the compact high-pressure engine and the iron hull between them end the age in which transport meant wind, water and muscle.
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Stopping a Train: The Air Brake and Fail-Safe Design
Three milestones producing the clearest example of fail-safe design anywhere in this set: a brake that applies itself when its own control system fails.
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