. The street railway review . medium of detection is through opera glasses anddistance. (U4 ^fttic€tifymWay9\^^ A FEW NOTES ON EARLY ELECTRICRAILWAY WORK IN PITTSBURG. BY LEO DAFT. One day during the summer of 1886 a bright lookingyoung man was ushered into the writers office, adjoin-ing the factory, then situated at Greenville, N. J., withthe remark, • This gentleman wants to get a few parti-culars about the maximum gradients it is possible toascend with electric motors, and the New York officehas just called us up to know if you cannot show himsome experiments in that direction. A few questi
. The street railway review . medium of detection is through opera glasses anddistance. (U4 ^fttic€tifymWay9\^^ A FEW NOTES ON EARLY ELECTRICRAILWAY WORK IN PITTSBURG. BY LEO DAFT. One day during the summer of 1886 a bright lookingyoung man was ushered into the writers office, adjoin-ing the factory, then situated at Greenville, N. J., withthe remark, • This gentleman wants to get a few parti-culars about the maximum gradients it is possible toascend with electric motors, and the New York officehas just called us up to know if you cannot show himsome experiments in that direction. A few questions elicited the information that the youngman hailed from Pittsburgh, Pa., and was bold enoughto propose the construction of a street railroad, some. LEO UAFT. Leo Daft, whose name is as inseparably connected with the early electric rail-way industry in this country as that of Van Depoele or Sprague, does not need anyintroduction to our readers, for it is but a few years since the company bearing hisname, and playing an important pioneer part in electric road building, passed outof existence. It is hard to realize ttiat the history he relates is that of eventstaking place only ten years ago, and less. The industry has grown fast, and thearmy of new men that have come in know little of the history of the pioneer under-takings. ,\8 Mr. Daft hints in his article, much of the history tfiat is writtenthese days is hardly worthy of the name, and it will be especially gratifying to oureaders to hear from such an absolute authority as he is. Mr. D ift himself, how-ever, is too modest to speak the whole truth about his part in early work, and wehope that some day some writer acquainted with all the facts will publish a historyof \tr. Dafts
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