TRAVELING AT HIGH SPEEDS—HELE-SHAW. 637 
ates ; eee Sie tie 127 miles an hour, and a Benz car 
The maximum recorded speeds of a railway were on the experi- 
mental line of Messrs. Siemens, on the Berlin-Zossen High mae 
Railway, where a speed of rather more than 130 miles an eats 
attained. The electric current employed was 10,000 volts, 400 horse- 
power motors being used. On the Marienfel-Zossen experimental 
line, the speed attained with 250 horsepower was apparently rather 
FLYING MACHINE 
EXPRESS TRAIN MAXA 
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EXPRESS TRAIN AV: 
€XPRESS TRAIN MIN® 4 
MILES PER HOUR 
Fig. 3.—Graphica! table of maximum speeds. 
less, though in that locomotive four motors were employed, the 
current being, as in the other case, 10,000 volts. The lantern dia- 
grams are a picture of the vehicles actually employed, and of the 
track on which the experiments were made. As a set-off against the 
sober engineering pictures, I show a picture taken from an American 
motor journal, illustrating a motor vehicle and locomotive at top 
speed, the former passing on a level crossing in front of the latter. 
