The Pioneer Stage of Railroad Electrification
by: Carl W. Condit

Softcover. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, plain stapled wrappers, 8 X 11", 45 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Condit defines the pioneer stage as roughly that decade between 1895 and 1905, when steam railroads first experimented with various types of electric motive power. Calling it "the most complex technical achievement of the nineteenth century", he gives a detailed historical account of the effort. Clean copy.