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Wed, 05 Mar 2008 March 5, 1872: Westinghouse Gives Railroads a Brake Funny how most folks remember Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla but not George Westinghouse, even though he was arguably a more important inventor than either of them, and founded a company that still bears his name. Prolific inventor George Westinghouse Jr. designs a safe and reliable automatic brake to stop trains right in their tracks. (link) [Wired: Top Stories]Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:27 /Technology | 1 writeback | permanent link |
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