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Excerpt from Air Brake Tests The many patents granted referring to this subject clearly shows how important the question of braking had already become, and it is impossible to tell what the common-road vehicle of to-day would have been if the power of steam had 'not been discovered right in the midst of the great development of roads and road vehicles and turned the attention of inventors to channels which were destined to entirely change the relative importance of earlier modes of travel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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