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Automatic Band-Brake for Railway-Cars
Patent for "a brake of simple and inexpensive construction, that may be readily attached to steam or tramway cars, that is automatic in its working, and to do away with the brake-beams now employed, which through their breaking down are two-thirds of the causes of car derailments" (lines 19-26).
Date:
January 27, 1891
Creator:
Inglis, Thomas & Schiermann, William
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