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The First Electrification of Transport

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Electricity was the logical motive power and trolleys the killer app in urban centers by 1890. In 1920 it did pursue a national network of highways and did nothing for the known—and intensively investigated—financial problem of both mainline and urban rail (the trolleys).

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