The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 456
allthose now in use; should you think the accompanying sketch anddescription worthy a corner in your useful Journal, I think much goodwould be done by directing the attention of mechanics to the subject.I need scarcely say that in the arrangements of the levers in the dia-gram, the object in view… … S In the construction of all the railway breaks in use, there appears tome to be two radical errors; 1st. The breaks are applied to only asmall part of the wheel, and consequently its power is unnecessarilylimited. 2nd. The bearings of the break axles being on the carriages, andthe springs…
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