Frank Julian Sprague : Electrical Inventor and Engineer /
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. Sprague (1857-1934) was an American naval officer turned inventor who worked briefl...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2009.
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