NO MORE RAILWAY COLLISIONS.
A most wonderful invention (says the St. James’ Gazette) is reported from Vienna. An Austrian engineer has, it is said, designed a truck to run before every railway train, being maintained always at a fixed but adjustable distance in front by the force of an electric current transmitted along the metals from a dynamo on the engine. The current is 3onducted through mercury contained in glass tubes on the pilot truck. If, therefore, the trucks come into collision the tubes are broken and the contact consequently destroyed. The interruption of the current instantly and automatically applies the breaks on the following train. It is claimed by the inventor that two expresses fitted with this system might with impunity be set to run full tilt at each other. The collision of their pilot trucks would arrest the progress of both trains before they could meet. The element of fallibility is accordingly entirely eliminated and drivers may dash through a whole series of danger signals without risk, being automatically arrested the moment they reached the spot that is really dangerous,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1692, 31 January 1888, Page 3
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182NO MORE RAILWAY COLLISIONS. Temuka Leader, Issue 1692, 31 January 1888, Page 3
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