Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...easiest way for Harvard men to reach Newtonville square is by trolley car from Harvard square changing at Newton...
...annual spring elections of the borough were held last week. Great interest was manifested by the members of the university in these elections, as the issue was whether or not permission to run a trolley line through Princeton should be given. The faculty and students formed the largest part of the conservative party which was opposed to the trolley, and to them is due the large majority opposed to the project. Princeton, situated as it is in a small town, has always been known as a rural university, and it was feared that with the electric railway would come industries...
...probably, Mr. Morse said, only a question of a few years before the large majority of the overhead wires in our large cities will be placed under ground, even including the trolley-wire itself. Experiments have already been made, which show that cars can be run equally well with the trolley-wire under ground...
...storage-battery system likely to replace the trolley system for electric propulsion of street cars...
...Samuel A. Harsh, Denver, Col., "Mine Surveying"; Norman D. Halus, Chicago, III,, "Economic Development of Virginia"; Gustave E. Huttelmaier, Knoxville, Tenn., "Transmission of Power by Compressed Air"; Theodore C. Janeway, New York City, "Products of the Digestive Action of Bromelin on Fibrin"; John K. Punderford, New Haven, Conn., "Electric Trolley Roads"; Paul Sterling, Bridgeport, Conn., "The Westinghouse Automatic Air-Brake"; James G. Stokes, New York City, "The Heredity of Disease"; Charles M. Williams, of Brooklyn, N. Y., "Products of the Growth of the Bacillus Anthrachis...