Electric Streetcar Timeline

The Transportation period began in the 1800's with vehicles operating on engineering such as steam power locomotives and railroads, which were a huge upgrade from the original horse drawn carriages or horse back ridding. Like most new technology these inventions made life a lot easier and shot us to the current day cars and other transport vehicles.

The American family is modeled as being happy, calming, and cheerful but for many it is the opposite of that In the novel, Until They Bring the Streetcars Back, by Stanley Gordon, he doesn't romanticize and make the characters life beautiful and perfect. He chooses to give the characters major difficulties in their lives that set them back. Based in St.Paul, Minnesota in the late 40's and early 50's, the difficulties the main teenage characters go through our different then what teenagers go through today. Cal deals with his Fathers disconnection with him. Steve is dealing with always feeling pitied and guilty. But they don't compare to the hardship Gretchen is going through in her household. These characters go through many problems in the book but somehow find a way to relieve their pain.

Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are each widely considered to be two of the most illustrious and groundbreaking modern American playwrights, and their signature work -- Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire – respectively, are also their most tragic pieces. Miller’s Death of a Salesman is, ultimately, a play focusing on the tragic consequences of Willy Loman’s unwavering belief in the American dream and its associated progress and success, where he is tragically too human, believing the values that matter in family are equally important in the world of business. Similarly, Blanche DuBois in Tennessee William’s Streetcar feigns her appearance and refuses move on from her past life of luxury, holding onto and creating new desires

Street railways were created and they were the most aggressive expansion in the 19th century. From the 1880’s to the 1890’s street railways took up at least six miles from City Hall in Boston. The service of the first railway began in 1852. The first street railway in Boston would go between Harvard Square, Cambridge, Summerville, and Union Square. The increase in the street railway brought excitement for the entrepreneur’s as well in other cities in America. Eventually the street railways replaced the omnibus’s that were already running

Thomas Davenport, built a electric cars. Americans, Ryker and William Morrison built a 6 passenger electric car. In 1897 taxi's in New York city were electric cars.

2. After the Civil War, Union Pacific Railroad started building from Omaha, Nebraska to the West. Irish Paddies who fought with Union worked to build the railroad. Central Pacific Railroad started from Sacramento to the East across Sierra Nevada and the workers were mostly Chinese. Leland Stanford was one of the Big Four who earned millions from the construction. The two tracks met in Ogden, Utah, thus completed the transcontinental

Have you ever thought about the past and wanted that same thing to happen again or wanted to make sure that it would never happen again? Often in a work of Literature characters who are coping with trauma attempt to both repress or revive the past. This trend ends up being expressed in the two novels, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. To repress the past a character would try to prevent what had happened from happening again while reviving the past would be to bring back what had previously happened. In A Streetcar Named Desire the main character, Blanche DuBois who is a teacher ends up moving from Mississippi to live with her sister, Stella Kowalski, in New Orleans and eventually has problems with Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close the main character, Oskar Schell is dedicated to finding the lock that fits a key that his father who had died on September 11 at the World Trade Center had given him. The trend of both repressing and reviving the past when coping with trauma is evident in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer when Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close tries to find the lock that matches a mysterious key and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire has to be reminded of her past by her brother in law Stanley.

attached to the body of the wagon. With the wheel fixed the journey was slower but safer. Uphill a

Bus lines were less expensive to build and operate than rails and trolleys. Therefore, extending service to rapidly growing suburbs could be accomplished quickly and inexpensively, since there was no need to construct additional rail lines (Slater). Slater also notes the development of the modern bus. Unlike the streetcar, which made no significant technical advances during the 1920s, the bus made substantial improvements in speed, handling, and comfort, which attracted new ridership (Slater). One of the biggest expenses for public transportation is operator labor, so vehicle speed is critical. Buses were 50% faster, meaning that the cost per passenger of the operator’s time was one-third less

Quickly the tall buildings and bright lights fade away and start to meld with nature giving way for the tall, thick trees that lined the side of the highway. The signs, which were big and green in color, was suspended above. Directing our way, the signs stated the gas stations that appeared almost every two exits, assisting us greatly. Overhead were bridges that crisscrossed this way and that as if it were shielding the drivers down below. Traffic, which was little to none did not hinder our passage to Ridgecrest. Occasionally a car passed by racing towards some sort of imaginary finish line

Also, as the train goes down the hills and loops, it experiences a free fall effect.

Large engines that use combustible fuel usually drive trains, but electric trains are also being used around the world and have been for decades. Electric trains are used around the world most for transportation of people instead of goods. Their electric motors are powered from a receiver that remains in contact with a wire supplying the electricity that runs parallel with the train. Electric trains are more efficient, cheaper to run, and they can accelerate much faster than their previous predecessors (“Electric Locomotives, The Definition Of Efficiency,” n.d.). Future electric trains will be able to travel faster than ever before, and eventually they will be build all around the United States and other countries to provide extremely fast travel at cheaper costs (“Electric Locomotives, The Definition Of Efficiency,” n.d.).

     Back in the early 1900’s people were amazed to see a person driving down the

Initial hydrogen, fuel cell and pure electric vehicles were not much successful as they were all very expensive and not very efficient. The true electric vehicles did not have the required standards of an American car buyer because they cost a lot, around US$

Many other people continued the development and improvement of electric automobiles and for a time electric automobiles were the preferred type of Automobile because of their quiet ride, quick start-up, and lack of pollution. In fact electric automobiles held the land speed record well into the early 1900’s. However, they began to decline in the early 1900’s because of the increased prevalence and efficiency of the internal combustion engine.