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Scientific American, Vol. 82, No. 7 (1900) (1900)

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a higher speed than 43 miles an hour, including a power-transmitting device is, therefore, 99°99 per press trains run by the Northern Railway of France, cent, that is, the loss is one-hundredth of one per cent, stops. which includes no less than forty-five trains, with an It was in the year 1885… … adopt the four-cylinder, compound are within the reach of one station attendant. The fact that magnetic system for its high-speed trains. An engine considerably more pow- clutches can be controlled by ‘one STATE RAILWAYS. erful than the compound of 1885 or more push buttons or electric was…

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