Excerpt from International University Lectures, Delivered by the Most Distinguished Representatives of the Greatest Universities of the World, at the Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, Vol. 8 The answer to the first question would undoubtedly be in the affirmative in every one of these reports. The pow erful electrical locomotive recently constructed by the Gen eral Electric Company for the New York Central Rail road and the experimental results obtained with it leave no room for any reasonable doubt that electrical traction ma chines can be built, which will take care of any practicable load and at any practicable speed. The Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg is com pleting for the Swedish Government a heavy traction elec tricel locomotive, which is considered by some to be even an advance upon the electrical locomotive of the General Electric Company just referred to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.