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Example sentences for "electric railway"

  • I have ridden at forty miles an hour on Mr. Edison's electric railway--and we ran off the track.

  • Thus we see that Edison was not the first to form the broad idea of a electric railway, but his dynamo and systems of distribution and regulation of current first made the idea commercially practicable.

  • Among the customers of this system are an electric railway, a number of irrigation plants, and a cement works.

  • For transmission to electric railway lines a frequency of 25 cycles has been and is being widely used, prominent examples of which may be seen in the New Hampshire traction, the Berkshire, and the Albany & Hudson systems.

  • Mr. Edison was consulting electrician for the Electric Railway Company, but neither a director nor an executive officer.

  • Mauch Chunk is served by the Central of New Jersey railway and, at East Mauch Chunk, across the river, connected by electric railway, by the Lehigh Valley railway.

  • And now that the high-speed question has cropped up, we must not believe that every projected electric railway will be built, though of the ultimate prevalence of far higher speeds than we now enjoy there can be no doubt.

  • The exhibition was in two parts, connected by an electric railway, the one at the capital, the other at Tervueren, seven miles away.

  • These two heavy central lines are to represent an electric railway track on a street.

  • I recapitulate: With men on the educational level and at the age that comes in question for their first appointment in the service of an electric railway company, the test proposed ought to be applied according to this scheme.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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