Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels by Bill Smith

Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels by Bill Smith

This book presents a thorough survey of electric railway development from the earliest days of the London Underground to modern electrified main line trains. Coverage includes chapters on signalling and communications, power supplies, and a detailed survey about traction systems, both AC and DC. The introduction, first of mercury arc rectifiers, and later of power semiconductor controls, is also discussed in detail.

The author has a long standing interest in engineering history and has written many papers on aspects of railway technology. This book will be of particular interest to scientists and historians interested in the development of electric railways.

Bill Smith worked his way through undergraduate school firing steam locomotives on the railroad, then paid for graduate school as a dormitory resident advisor. Three years later, he was the acting chief of television for a branch of the Air Force in Washington, then acting assistant to the under secretary of a federal department. He was the founding executive director of a state wide public broadcasting network, a founder of a seventeen state public broadcasting system, and the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award.

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ISBN 13	9780345392992
ISBN 10	034539299X
Title	Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels
Author	Bill Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1996-03-19
Number of pages	201
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