ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.
The proceedings of the first meet* iftj&f oyffiff 'Klectrd-Technic Society iri Htowlif»,of -which, the Cologne Gazette a yery long report, were of an interesting character. rtWatbs Which will be read with ■tale£e&i ! were those' made by Bieniens with regard to of constructing and | an, electric post, 11^'^ electric railway. Dr 4pe» no^ propose that elect ; shall supersede steam as a power on ordinary railways; l aJtohfi>Ublli>v6(i ■•♦•'■ wilt Lo as litthr' as that electric lights, the i dlk of the Americacfi. banish 1 #aa illumination;" but rieverthtless convinced that in electric railways may be
instructed and worked with advantage where the employment of - e-im locomotives would be impossible or extremely inconvenient In Berlin, for example, where, owing to the presence of water at a very little ■.ii-fcince below the surface of thp ground, an underground Hue. could nos be constructed, an overh°*i'l electric railway would possess inauy advantages over an •* elevated rail way" on the * nnvrican system.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 8 June 1880, Page 3
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