Continuous Railway Brakes Etc A Lecture With An Appendix PDF Download

Excerpt from Continuous Railway Brakes: A Practical Treatise on the Several Systems in Use in the United Kingdom, Their Construction and PerformanceI have endeavoured to explain from my experience what a continuous brake should be capable of doing, and when it is found most useful. I have given cases to show that a continuous brake in the hands of the driver would, in all probability, have saved the lives of passengers who were killed. With such evidence before us, every accident which takes place in the future with fatal results will, no doubt, be subjected to rigorous investigation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.