conduit-and-shoe

Updated: May 18, 2025

All the arguments that could be urged in support of this ingenious system are tenable and logical at the present moment; but the trolley had its way except on a few lines where the conduit-and-shoe method was adopted; and in the intervening years the volume of traffic created and handled by electricity in centres of dense population has brought into existence the modern subway.

Frank Lewis Dyer - Edison, His Life and Inventions