. The Street railway journal . e previous page, could carry twenty-six passengers. In the same year, 1881, von Siemens exhibited at the ParisExposition an electric railway employing an overhead currentcollecting scheme which embraced the use of a split tube car-rying current and a contact pencil which slid along the aper-ture in the tube. The following year, von Siemens built anoverhead line in Charlottenburg, using rolling contact. Thesliding trolley bow, now so commonly used on the Continent,was first employed on the Gross-Lichterfelde road in 1887. While the overhead system electric railway
. The Street railway journal . e previous page, could carry twenty-six passengers. In the same year, 1881, von Siemens exhibited at the ParisExposition an electric railway employing an overhead currentcollecting scheme which embraced the use of a split tube car-rying current and a contact pencil which slid along the aper-ture in the tube. The following year, von Siemens built anoverhead line in Charlottenburg, using rolling contact. Thesliding trolley bow, now so commonly used on the Continent,was first employed on the Gross-Lichterfelde road in 1887. While the overhead system electric railways made rapidprogress in the United States, very strong opposition was mani-fested toward them in Europe, and resulted in the installationof quite a number of lines operated by accumulator that neither this method nor a surface contactsystem were commercially practicable, Siemens & Halskeevolved a side conduit system, which was first installed at THE DIFFICULTIES WHICH CONFRONTED THE EARLY „ENGINEERS.
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