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Experimental electric railroad at Menlo Park, 13 May 1880.
Edison experimented with several uses of the electric motor. Here he and members of the laboratory staff test a small railway engine on a circular track of about 1½ miles at Menlo Park. In Germany similar ideas were being pursued by Werner Siemens. The first practical system was designed by Frank Sprague for a street railway in Richmond, VA, in 1887.
SI negative #80-16528
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