All About Inventions and Discoveries
The Romance of modern scientific and mechanical Achievements

Forfatter: Frederick A. Talbot

År: 1916

Forlag: Cassell and Company, LTD

Sted: London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

Sider: 376

UDK: 6(09)

With a Colour Plate and numerous Black-and-White Illustrations.

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Photo by courtesy of the Westinghouse Brake Co., Ltd. THE TRIUMPH OF THE WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE A striking test. The train, comprising the locomotive and seventy-five goods wagons, is being held stationary on a gradient of I in 40 by the Westinghouse atmospheric brake. The rear van is sixty-six feet above the top of the engine’s funnel.