A Hundred Miles an Hour by Electricity.
An American electrician professor, W. D. Mark'j, recently stated that he could build an electric motor that could take a train from New York to Philadelphia, a distance of 86 miles, in 36 minutes. Wonderful as this seems, it appears that proposals are now under consideration in America for the equipmenb of an experimental line to run at a rate of not less than 100 miles an hour. The motor suggested is about 40 feet long, the height of an ordinary locomotive, with a tapering head, powerful electric light, and eighb wheels. The wheels have insulated tires for taking up . the electric current passing through the rails, and this current is transmitted by means of steel brushes placed over the top of the wheels to the motor. The passenger car is cylindrical, and made ot steel. The current can be cut off and the motor brought to a standstill with extraordinary rapidity. The railway would under this system be divided into blocks, and the current would be turned on to a block only when the track was clear and everything all right. We shall probably yet see the journey from New York to San Francisco made easily within two days.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 4 (Supplement)
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