Stop That Train.

George Westinghouse's many inventions rank him with Thomas A. Edison and Werner von Siemens as founding fathers of our electrified world. Yet, ironically, Westinghouse's first invention, a railroad brake he patented in 1869, was actuated not by electrons but by air. To this day, most railr...

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I publikationen:IEEE spectrum 46, 3 (2009).
Huvudupphovsman: Mandelbaum, R.
Materialtyp: Artikel
Språk:English
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