. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . cs of the railway, that is to say), for ithas been shown, again and again, that the cost of burningcoal under the boiler of a locomotive is one-third greaterthan burning it under the boiler of a stationary engine andconverting it into an electric current. (See The Elec-tric Review, for February 28, 1884, and The New YorkTribune, for February 25, 1884.) So also in other indus-tries, the saving in insurance rates, heat, dirt, noise, danger,loss of space, sal
. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . cs of the railway, that is to say), for ithas been shown, again and again, that the cost of burningcoal under the boiler of a locomotive is one-third greaterthan burning it under the boiler of a stationary engine andconverting it into an electric current. (See The Elec-tric Review, for February 28, 1884, and The New YorkTribune, for February 25, 1884.) So also in other indus-tries, the saving in insurance rates, heat, dirt, noise, danger,loss of space, salary of licensed engineer, and cost of enginesand boilers will be so great by the employment of electro-. motors, and the economy of distribution by wires fromcentral stations so considerable, that it really looks as if thehour of doom had struck for steam, or, at any rate, that itsuses will be more limited. In London, several new electric railways are in process ofconstruction. One of these is to extend under the Thames * See an account of the Daft experiments in Harpers Weekly, for Sep-tember 22, 1883. THE LIGHTiq^IKG HARNESSED. 167. 168 WOKDERS AND CURIOSITIES 0^ THE RAILWAY. through a new tunnel, from Charing Cross station toWaterloo station. Messrs. Siemens Brothers are the con-tractors for this railway. Various companies are being formed in the United Statesfor the introduction of electric motors upon horse railroadsand elevated railroads. A company has also been formedin Paris for the introduction of electro-motors on September 6, 1883, an ordinary horse-car was propelledby the Faure-Sellon-Volckmar accumulators of the Frenchcompany for a distance of thirty miles through the principalthoroughfares of Paris, and during the trial of six hours noaccident occurred through the frightening of horses. Indeed,their freedom from noise, dust, and sparks, is one of thechief attractions of these novel motors. They are also rec-ommended by their cheapness. For elevated cit
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