# 4 Electric Tram Development
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#4 Long Beach Pavilion
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The Electric Tram car has been developing over many of centuries. This
technology has been improved overtime as well as the popularity. The first
person who invented and tested this technology was Fyodor Pirotsky from
Sestroretsk near
Saint Petersberg,
Russia. This
was the beginning of an outstanding creation. A year later in
Berlin, Germany
a man named Werner von Siemens got in contact with Pirotsky and built his own electric tram
in 1881. From then on many people across the world were building their own
electric tram and some places developing their own railway. In
Brigton, Britain
Volks Electric Railway was developed and opened in 1883. Also Modling and
Hinterbruhl tram opened near Vianna in
Austria which was the first tram
and railway in the world ran by electricity served as an overhead with
pantograph current collectors that same year. These trams got so wide spread
that they were exhibited at the 1884 world Cotton Centennial worlds fair in
New Orleans, Louisiana. A few years later, the first successfully test in service tram was in
Richmond, Virginia
was the Richmond Union Passenger Railway built by Frank Sprague. These events
lead to people being able to commute back and forth together sooner then a few
at a time.
The
Electric Trams developed tremendously overtime, from the way they were
developed. Over the years people found new ways to run and build them to make
them safer and easier. One of the dangers was it would send electric shocks to
people and animals crossing. After the first trams were created, the first hydroelectric powered tram
system was adopted and created which was called the Giants Causeway Tramway which originally ran from
Portrush to Bushmills in Northern
Ireland. The hydroelectric tram ran from 1886 to 1930. This development was called the
first long tramway in the world. Over the year the technology these people used
got more advanced and powerful to maintain. Today, many places still use trams
that have been advanced. Without trams we wouldn’t be able to have buses or group
traveling like we have now. Trams gave us a huge impact today.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_electric_trams
