Improvement in Steam Air-Brakes

Westinghouse, G. (1872). Improvement in Steam Air-Brakes.

Type

Patent

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1872

Link

https://patents.google.com/patent/US124405A/en not authoritative

Cited from

engineering_design

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Boundedness

  • This sourceBibliography-only (Tier C). [CITATION-FIX: prior 'U.S. Patent No. 128,134' is incorrect; the 1872 Westinghouse air-brake patent is 124,405.]

• Containment

  • This sourceBibliography-only (tier C); not cited in body.

• Fail-Safe
  • The mechanism design ensuring the safe state is achieved passively (gravity, spring, mechanical detent, signal loss) not by active control

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