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Excerpt from Description of the Westinghouse Air Brake Co's Exhibits at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A., 1876 Speed Indicator. The fifth exhibit of this Cornpany is designed first to indicate the speed of a locomotive at any particular moment, and second, an additional appar atus 1s provided by means of which a diagram of brake stops may be taken, showing the distance run after the brakes are applied and the decrease ln Speed until the train is stopped, from which may be calculated the exact effect produced by any brake upon any train to which this apparatus is fitted. 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.