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Railroad Accidents, Notes on by Charles Francis Adams Jr Hard Cover 1879
Railroad Accidents, Notes on by Charles Francis Adams Jr
Hard Cover Writing on title page.
Copyright 1879
280 pages Indexed
CONTENTS.
I The Death Of Mr. Huskisson
Ii The Angola And Shipton Accidents .
The Wollaston Accident Accidents And Conservatism
Telescoping And The Miller Platform The Versailles Accident
Telegraphic Collisions Oil-Tank Accidents
Drawbridge Disasters The Norwalk Accident Bridge Accidents .
Xii " The Protection Of Bridges
Xiii Car-Couplings In Derailments
Xiv The Revere Catastrophe
Xv Rear-End Collisions .
Novel Appliances
The Automatic Electric Block Interlocking System
The Westinghouse Brake
The Battle Of The Brakes
The Railroad Journey Resulting In Death
The Railroad Death-Rate
American As Compared With Foreign Railroad Accidents
This volume makes no pretence whatever of being either.an exhaustive or a scientific study of the subject to which it relates. It is, on the contrary, merely what its title signifies,-a collection of notes on railroad accidents. In the course of ten years service as one of the railroad commissioners of Massachusetts, I was called upon officially to investigate two very serious disasters,-that at Revere in 1871, and that at Wollaston in 1878, besides many others less memorable. In connection with these official duties I got together by degrees a considerable body of information, which I was obliged to extract as best I could from newspapers and other contemporaneous sources. I have felt the utmost hesitation in publishing so crude and imperfect a performance, but finally decide to do so for the reason that, so far as I know, there is nothing relating to this subject in print in an accessible form, and it would, therefore, seem that these notes may have a temporary value.
During my term of public service, also, there have been four appliances, either introduced into use or now struggling for American recognition, my sense of the
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