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" The first result of the experiment was to show conclusively that the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail is much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. "
A Manual of Civil Engineering - Page 783
by William John Macquorn Rankine - 1883 - 808 pages
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Report of the ... and ... Meetings of the British ..., Volume 49, Part 1879

British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - Science - 1879 - 806 pages
...the experiment was to show conclusively that the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail is much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. The annexed copies of two sets of diagrams (No. 1 and No. 2) taken during the experiments, show, more clearly...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 49

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 804 pages
...the experiment was to show conclusively that the retarding; effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail is much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. The annexed copies of two sets of diagrams (No. 1 and Xo. 2) taken during the experiments, show, more clearly...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 49

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1879 - 790 pages
...the experiment was to show conclusively that the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail is much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. upon the rail. The experiments were made with the object of measuring the fore* thus brought into action....
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A Manual of Machinery and Millwork

W. J. M. Rankine - 1883 - 666 pages
...Galton, CB, F.RS., on the effect of brakes upon railway trains, it appears that (1.) The retarding eflect of a wheel sliding upon a rail is not much less than...friction of the wheel on the rail being only about J of the friction between the wheel and the brake blocks. (2.) The coefficient of friction between...
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A Manual of Machinery and Millwork

William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1893 - 710 pages
...and steel, and its tensile strength varies from 24 to 40 tons per square inch. ARTICLE 309, PAGE 348. braked with such a force as would just allow it to...of friction between the brake blocks and the wheels vurie* inversely according to the speed of the train; thus, with cast-iron brake blocks on steel tires,...
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A Manual of Machinery and Millwork

William John Macquorn Rankine - Machinery - 1893 - 692 pages
...made by Capt. Douglas Gallon, CB, F.RS., on the effect of brakes upon railway trains, it appears that braked with such a force as would just allow it to...friction of the wheel on the rail being only about -.1 of the friction between the wheel and the brake blocks. (2.) The coefficient of friction between...
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The Effect of Brakes Upon Railway Trains

Sir Douglas Strutt Galton - Brakes - 1894 - 196 pages
...Capt. Galton's paper they were reminded that " the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail was much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve." Now he himself had had experience in India in working very heavy inclines — some of the heaviest...
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Air Brake Tests

Westinghouse air brake company, Pittsburgh, Pa, Westinghouse Air Brake Company - Air brake - 1904 - 390 pages
...It was immediately discovered, however, that the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail was much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. The above copies of two sets of diagrams, Figs. 32 and 33, taken during the experiments, show, more clearly...
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Air Brake Tests

Westinghouse air brake company, Pittsburgh, Pa, Westinghouse Air Brake Company - Air brake - 1904 - 396 pages
...It was immediately discovered, however, that the retarding effect of a wheel sliding upon a rail was much less than when braked with such a force as would just allow it to continue to revolve. GALTONWESTINGHOUSE TESTS the rails, and after. These two experiments were made with a single van slipped...
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A Manual of Applied Mechanics ...

William John Macquorn Rankine - Mechanical engineering - 1921 - 708 pages
...a curved shape, concave towards the water. From experiments made by Capt. Douglas Gallon, CB , FRS, on the effect of brakes upon railway trains, it appears...friction of the wheel on the rail being only about J of the friction between the wheel and the brake blocks. (2.) The coefficient of friction between...
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