Abstract
Abstract This study examines the Italian railway system's conversion to electricity from three perspectives : the existing technology, the system's organization, and the competition between electric and steam traction. Italy adopted a backward technology (the low frequency three-phase system) which was abandoned during the 1930*s in favor of continuous current traction. Even though the electrified system was more rationally and more systematically implemented from 1932 on, steam traction remained competitive through the thirties : only the choice of a macro-economic approach, stemming from an autarchic attitude, finally consolidated the implementation of electric traction.
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