NO MORE RAILWAY COLLISIONS
A mo it wonderful invention (nays the " St, J-imo-' Gazette ") la reported from Vienna. An Austrian engineer has, it is aald, designed a true, to run before every railway train, beln^ maintained always st a fixed, but adj ..tab c diatanoe In front by the torso ot au eleotrio current transmitted along the motels fronj a dynamo on the engine. The current ia conducted through mercury contained lv glaß. tubes on tbe pilot truck. If,' therefore, the truck comes into collision the tubes are broken and tbe ooot.ct 0 >nr equenlly destroyed. The Interruption of tha current instantly and automatically applies the breaks on the following train. It la claimed by the InveDtor that two expresses fitted wish this Byst.m might with Impunity te tet to run fall tilt at eaoh other. The collision of their pilot trucks would arre.t tbe progrea. of both trains before thoy could meet. The element of fall! bllity ia accordingly entirely eliminated, and drivers may dash through a whole aeries of danger signals without rlik being automatically arroated the momeut they reaohed tbe npot that is realty dangerous.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1751, 27 January 1888, Page 3
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188NO MORE RAILWAY COLLISIONS Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1751, 27 January 1888, Page 3
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