Excerpt from Up-to-Date Air-Brake Catechism: The Only Practical and Complete Work Published, Treating on the Equipment Manufactured by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company
They have also developed a passenger car equipment which, aside from the improvements in the way of flex ibility and other new features, will permit of this heavier equipment being brought to a stop in about the same distance as was accomplished with the older form of high speed brake and the lighter equipment in general use dur ing the previous ten years.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book collects the groundbreaking writings and teachings of George Westinghouse, the inventor of the air brake and pioneer of railway safety. Westinghouse's air brake was the first system to provide effective, reliable control over trains, a feat of engineering that transformed the railroad industry and played an indispensable role in the growth of the United States as a modern industrialized nation. This volume catalogs and contextualizes Westinghouse's ideas, research, and discoveries, providing a long-overdue and insightful record of one of the 19th century's most influential engineers. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781332961474_0
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