Notes on Railroad Accidents. Charles Francis Adams
Читать онлайн.| Название | Notes on Railroad Accidents |
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| Автор произведения | Charles Francis Adams |
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| isbn | 4057664591241 |
Charles Francis Adams
Notes on Railroad Accidents
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664591241
Table of Contents
THE ANGOLA AND SHIPTON ACCIDENTS.
TELESCOPING AND THE MILLER PLATFORM.
THE AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC BLOCK SYSTEM.
THE RAILROAD JOURNEY RESULTING IN DEATH.
AMERICAN AS COMPARED WITH FOREIGN RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
PREFACE.
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,