Sunday, October 18, 2009

First Air Brake


George Westinghouse in 1869 was the first person who invented the air brake and revolutionized the railroad industry, making braking a safer venture and thus permitting trains to travel at higher speeds. After that he made many changes to improve the brakes. By 1905, over 2,000,000 freight, passenger, mail, baggage and express cars and 89,000 locomotives were equipped with the Westinghouse Quick-Action Automatic Brake



1 comments:

Joyce G. Emor said...

good site. keep it up!