Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Volume 112
Автор:Institution of Civil Engineers Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 198 ISBN: 1130050394 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... would be taken against a tramway company, but he was strongly tempted to believe that the electric light companies, who were using very powerful currents, increasing in magnitude, and whose disturbance to the telephones and telegraphs of the country were increasing every day, if they did not look to their insulation, would hear something very unpleasant one of these days, either from the legal authorities of the Telephone Company or the legal authorities of the Post Office. No reference had been made in the Paper or the discussion to the growth of this industry, not only in its application to railway purposes, but to the dimensions of the works of railways. At first it was a mere tramway, now the City and South London line had become a railway. The Overhead Railway at Liverpool...
