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Conduit System

Webster's Dictionary

A system of electric traction, esp. for light railways, in which the actuating current passes along a wire or rail laid in an underground conduit, from which the current is "picked up" by a plow or other device fixed to the car or electric locomotive. Hence Conduit railway.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Conduit System'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/conduit-system.html. 1828.