The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . r underground electric roads, and thus outlinedand designed plans that must be more or less adopted,either overhead or below the surface, for the heavyurban traffic of the future.
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . r underground electric roads, and thus outlinedand designed plans that must be more or less adopted,either overhead or below the surface, for the heavyurban traffic of the future. Further than this, undertook the building of large electriclocomotives for experimental work. Another branchof electricity, in which of late Mr. Sprague has madea remarkable success, is that of electric express ele-vators, and his system, which promises a revolutionin the elevator industiy, will be found in many ofthe finest office buildings, hotels, etc., on this conti-nent. Of his railway inventions and apparatus made an interesting exhibit at the ParisUniversal exposition of, 1889, where it was honoredwith high awards. In 1885 Mr. Sprague marriedMary Keatinge, daughter of Dr. Harriette Kea-tinge, of New Orleans, and has one son. In theintervals of his work Mr. Sprague has found timefor several papers read before learned and tech-nical societies, on electric motors, railways and power. transmission, and for active participation in profes-sional expert and consultation work. He is vice-pres-ident of the Sprague electric elevator company, pres-ident of the Greathead tunnel and subway company,senior member of the electrical engineering firm ofSprague, Duncan & Hutchinson (Ltd.), New York,and an officer of several non-electrical is a member of various engineering bodies, andin 1892 was elected president of the American insti-tute of electrical engineers, the representative bodyof the profession and art in America, one of his im-mediate prede
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