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Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of Air Brakes
It is not only of interest to the individual, but important to the real progress of any art, to have, in concrete, permanent form a record of the fundamental principles established and determining factors involved in the development of improved apparatus or methods, as well as to what extent the theoretical advantages of such improvements have been realized under the conditions of actual service. The paper which follows presents such a record. Broadly speak ing, it covers the developments in the art of train braking, as applied to locomotive, passenger and freight service, during the past five or six years - a period characterized by a constantly increasing activity in all branches of transportation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
