Show tryout of air brake all that was needed tire the flit air ijanke was invented by westinghouse in when he was years elf if age an accident started his interest in railroad problems while studying unified control of broken lie rend read of the use of corn com presed pre sed nir clr in drilling the mont cents tunnel in italy after his first patent was issued lip lie interested W W card of the Steu steubenville benville division elf f the panhandle railway find and obtained permission to equip a locomotive anil and fur four passenger cars for a practical tryout shortly after leaving the terminal station in pittsburgh us Rs tire train emerged eni erRed from the tunnel at fourth avenue the engineer dan tate saw a drayman drive onto the tracks ahead tate reached for the handle of the new brake and brought the train to a complete st stop four foet from the prostrate pio ino strate man who had been flung from his ate by the rearing of the horses this proved a wholly satisfactory demonstration of houses invention and it few weeks later the westinghouse air brake company was organized july 1869 |