MIDDLETON, WILLIAM D; MIDDLETON, WILLIAM D. III.
Frank Julian Sprague: Electrical Inventor and Engineer.
First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xviii, 314 (2); frontispiece portrait, text illustrated with numerous b/w. photographs, line drawings and tables, patents, awards, notes, selected bibliography, index, bound in original blue cloth with yellow papered boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Bloomington, IN; Indiana University Press; 2009. Frank Julian Sprague invented a system for distributing electricity to streetcars from overhead wires. Within a year, electric streetcars had begun to replace horsecars, sparking a revolution in urban transportation. This is the definitive biography of "The Father of Electric Traction" an engrossing study of the life and times of a maverick innovator.
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