Identifier: railwaylocomotiv25newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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tion which this articleattracted lias caused the development ofthis invention to be watched with muchinterest. Many able engineers haveheld their minds in a solution of doubtwhich has now been dispelled bydemonstrative facts the verity of which of something over One Hundred andFifty Thousand Dollars, has, at theprime of his manhood, realized thedream of his younger days. Today-Mr. Prentice stands in the limelightof public opinion, a modest, unassum-ing Colossus of power. The public has long groaned whenit read of repeated railway disastersand people have clamored for a systemwhich would eliminate the glaring rea- thing and then doing something. ThePrentice wireless system depends uponno one for safety, as the system itselfis a continual signal of safety, and any-thing which is not normal is danger.It is absolutely out of the power ofany engineer to operate his train ifanything is wrong, whether it be anopen switch or derangement of thesystem itself. A short time since Mr. Prentice ar-
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is beyond question. The age in whichhas been perfected the telephone, andthe wireless telegraph, is an eminently-consistent time to bring forth such aproduct of a master mind as this wire-less train control; undoubtedly themost important development in therailway field since the introduction ofthe air brake. Mr. Frank Wyatt Prentice, the in-ventor, has achieved wonders with thisSpooky agent, the wireless force, andafter a strenuous period extendingover some fifteen years and at a cost sons for these oft repeated accidents.The storm prevented the engineerfrom seeing the signal, The rear flag-n an was not at his post, having fallendown the embankment. and manyotlur reasons which, when summedup, really amount to the fact that allhas depended upon a visual signal, andi someone failed to recognize thesignal, or if someone failed in his duty,the inevitable result of one individualsai I v as the endangering of human life.A visual (or ordinary block signal)depends upon someone seeing some- ra

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