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[QE001A001], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, May 18th, 1879

Title: [QE001A001], Technical Note, Thomas Alva Edison, May 18th, 1879
Editor's Notes: Electric tramway sketches. Described by TAE's testimony beginnning 115:783. Designed as "small feeders for trunk line railroads in the wheat regions of the Northwest, to be operated by wind power and automatically." Exhibit #1 shows dynamo driven by belting (reversable commutator); motor with governor; supplying dynamo current to section of track.
Author: Edison, Thomas Alva
Mentioned: Jamaica and Brooklyn Railroad; Kruesi, John
Date: 1879-05-18
Type: Technical Note
Subject: Electric traction; Dynamos and generators; Central stations
Folder ID: QE001-F
Microfilm ID: 115:824
Document ID: QE001A001
URL: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/document/QE001A001
Rights: Thomas Edison National Historical Park
Publisher: Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
License: CC0 1.0 Universal
Has Version: Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 115

Item sets: [QE001-F] Electric Railway Company v. Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company

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