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Updated: February 18, 2025
All of which is done by the power of compressed air, working through a series of pipes and air-hose beneath the cars. George Westinghouse's father was superintendent of the Schenectady Agricultural Works, and it was there that the boy found his vocation.
Likewise, when George Westinghouse, inventor of the airbrake, having finally persuaded the directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad, after many futile attempts in other directions, to grant him an opportunity to try out his invention, and, trying it out on a string of cars near Harrisburg ably demonstrated its practicability as a device for stopping trains and preventing accidents, he also as had Watt before him set the civilized world forward into an era full of promise and discovery as yet but barely entered upon, even with the remarkable progress already made in industry alone in the matter of regard for the safety of human life Westinghouse's own particular blazed trail through the forest of human ignorance this same airbrake.
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