Excerpt from Compressed Air Magazine, Vol. 16: January to December, 1911 Mr. Westinghouse was first led to apply his mind to the devising of means for the braking and control of trains in 1866, by a collision on the road between Schenectady and Troy which resulted in his detention for a couple of hours. He first tried familiar and obvious devices which already in some form had been tried by others and he concluded that he would have to seek success in other directions. He goes on to say: Shortly after I had reached this conclusion, I was induced by a couple of young women who came into my father's works to subscribe for a monthly pa per, and in a very early number, probably the first one I received, there was an account of the tunneling of Mount Cenis by machinery driven by compressed air conveyed through feet of pipes. This account of the use of compressed air instantly indicated that brake apparatus of the kind contemplated for oper ation by steam could be operated by means of compressed air upon any length of train, and I thereupon began actively to develop draw ings of apparatus suitable for the purpose and in 1867 promptly filed a caveat to protect the invention. 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.