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Allston
Allston is an officially recognized neighborhood of the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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Arlington, Massachusetts
Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles (10 km) northwest of Boston.
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Ashmont–Mattapan High-Speed Line
The Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line, also known as the M-Line, is a partially grade-separated light rail line which forms part of the MBTA's Red Line rapid transit line.
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Back Bay, Boston
Back Bay is an officially recognized neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Belmont, Massachusetts
Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
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Blue Line (MBTA)
The Blue Line is a rapid transit line in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, one of four rapid transit lines operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
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Central station (MBTA)
Central station (also called Central Square station) is an MBTA transit station in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Chelsea, Massachusetts
Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston.
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Direct current
Direct current (DC) is the unidirectional flow of electric charge.
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Distributed generation
Distributed generation, also distributed energy, on-site generation (OSG) or district/decentralized energy is electrical generation and storage performed by a variety of small, grid-connected devices referred to as distributed energy resources (DER).
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Electric power industry
The electric power industry covers the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric power to the general public and industry.
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Electric utility
An electric utility is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market.
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Electrical grid
An electrical grid is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers.
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Electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.
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Elevated railway
An elevated railway (also known as an El rail, El train or simply an El for short, and, in Europe, as an overhead railway) is a rapid transit railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed of steel, concrete, or brick).
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Everett, Massachusetts
Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, north of Boston.
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Frank J. Sprague
Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 in Milford, Connecticut – October 25, 1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators.
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Green Line "A" Branch
The "A" Branch or Watertown Branch was a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line.
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Green Line (MBTA)
The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area.
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Harvard station
Harvard station is a rapid transit and bus transfer station in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henry Melville Whitney
Henry Melville Whitney (October 22, 1839 – January 25, 1923) was an American industrialist, the founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and later the Dominion Coal Company Ltd. and the Dominion Iron and Steel Company Ltd.
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Horsecar
A horsecar, or horse-drawn tram, is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
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Light rail
Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.
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List of IEEE milestones
This list of IEEE Milestones describes the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) milestones, representing key historical achievements in electrical and electronic engineering.
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Malden, Massachusetts
Malden is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (abbreviated MBTA and known colloquially as "the T") is the public agency responsible for operating most public transportation services in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.
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MBTA Bus
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates 177 bus routes (list of routes) in the Greater Boston area, many of which were formerly part of a large streetcar system.
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Medford, Massachusetts
Medford is a city 3.2 miles northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a suburban city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Orange Line (MBTA)
The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, or mass transit) is transport of passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Rail replacement bus service
A rail replacement bus service uses buses to replace a passenger train service either on a temporary or permanent basis.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.
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Red Line (MBTA)
The Red Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
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Revere, Massachusetts
Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately from downtown Boston.
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Richmond Union Passenger Railway
The Richmond Union Passenger Railway, in Richmond, Virginia, was the first practical electric trolley (tram) system, and set the pattern for most subsequent electric trolley systems around the world.
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San Francisco cable car system
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system.
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Shore Line Trolley Museum
The Shore Line Trolley Museum, located in East Haven, Connecticut, is the oldest operating trolley museum in the United States.
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Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Stoneham, Massachusetts
Stoneham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, six miles north of downtown Boston.
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Thomson-Houston Electric Company
The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a manufacturing company which was one of the precursors of the General Electric company.
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Traction substation
A traction substation, traction current converter plant or traction power substation (TPSS) is an electrical substation that converts electric power from the form provided by the electrical power industry for public utility service to an appropriate voltage, current type and frequency to supply railways, trams (streetcars) or trolleybuses with traction current.
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Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
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Trolleybuses in Greater Boston
The Boston-area trolleybus (or, as known locally, trackless trolley) system forms part of the public transportation network serving Greater Boston in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Watertown, Massachusetts
The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Elevated_Railway
