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. 1896 Excerpt: ...Inst. C.e. Vol. cxxiv. u Major-General inconvenience would occur just as much with electric-traction as Webber. Mr. Dawson. Mr. P. DAWSON remarked that the capital investments in electric street-railways in the United States, which amounted to ?50,000,000, and the aggregate station I.HP. used to propel electric cars in America was about 1,500,000. With reference to the Author"s statement that there were 15 miles or 20 miles of accumulator storage-battery roads running in the United States, he should be glad to know in what other places they were running. The only one of which he knew was in New York, and on that road at the end of 1895 there were only two experimental cars running. Cars carrying accumulators, self-contained motor-cars, had been used 10 years or 15 years, and had...