Meaning of "Westinghouse brake" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE

Named after George Westinghouse (1846–1914), US inventor and manufacturer.

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PRONUNCIATION OF WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE

Westinghouse brake  [ˈwɛstɪŋˌhaʊs]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE

Westinghouse brake is a noun.

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WHAT DOES WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Railway air brake

An air brake is a conveyance braking system actuated by compressed air. Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse on March 5, 1868. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was subsequently organized to manufacture and sell Westinghouse's invention. In various forms, it has been nearly universally adopted. The Westinghouse system uses air pressure to charge air reservoirs on each car. Full air pressure signals each car to release the brakes. A reduction or loss of air pressure signals each car to apply its brakes, using the compressed air in its reservoirs.

Definition of Westinghouse brake in the English dictionary

The definition of Westinghouse brake in the dictionary is a braking system, invented by Westinghouse in 1872 and adopted by US railways, in which the brakes are held off by compressed air in the operating cylinder: controlled leakage of the air or a disruptive emergency causes the brakes to be applied. The system is used on most heavy vehicles and is replacing the vacuum system on many railways.

TRANSLATION OF WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE

Find out the translation of Westinghouse brake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Westinghouse brake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Westinghouse brake» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 西屋制动
• Translator English - Spanish: freno Westinghouse
• English: Westinghouse brake
• Translator English - Hindi: वेस्टिंगहाउस ब्रेक
• Translator English - Arabic: ستنجهاوس الفرامل
• Translator English - Russian: Westinghouse тормоз
• Translator English - Portuguese: freio Westinghouse
• Translator English - Bengali: ওয়েস্টিংহাউস ব্রেক
• Translator English - French: frein Westinghouse
• Translator English - Malay: Brek Westinghouse
• Translator English - German: Westinghouse-Bremse
• Translator English - Japanese: ウェスティングハウスのブレーキ
• Translator English - Korean: 웨스팅 하우스 브레이크
• Translator English - Javanese: Westinghouse brake
• Translator English - Vietnamese: Westinghouse phanh
• Translator English - Tamil: வெஸ்டிங்ஹவுஸ் பிரேக்
• Translator English - Marathi: वेस्टिंगहाऊस ब्रेक
• Translator English - Turkish: Westinghouse freni
• Translator English - Italian: freno Westinghouse
• Translator English - Polish: hamulec Westinghouse
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Westinghouse гальмо
• Translator English - Romanian: frână Westinghouse
• Translator English - Greek: φρένο Westinghouse
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Westinghouse rem
• Translator English - Swedish: Westinghouse broms
• Translator English - Norwegian: Westinghouse brems

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE»

Discover the use of Westinghouse brake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Westinghouse brake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius

The problem with using steam drilling at Mount Cenis was the same as Westinghouse's brake transmission problem; the steam condensed, limiting the distance a pipe could carry it. The steam engine could of course be moved into the tunnel ...

Quentin R. Skrabec, 2007

A Life of George Westinghouse

... from older companies the electric business and the brake business in France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Holland. This is the most important foreign company after the British Westinghouse and the Westinghouse Brake Company.

Henry G. Prout, 2005

Votes & Proceedings

The brakes on one vehicle in the middle of the train being disabled, the g'gdim" vehicle to be made ready for transit without disturbing the train or shunting it off'. — ' This can be done in a few seconds by the Westinghouse brake, by simply ...

New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, 1802

The Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the ...

In repeated trials, as well as in practical applications starting with the Pennsylvania and Panhandle railroads and other early adopting lines, the Westinghouse brake proved its clear superiority. Newspaper stories about close calls with railroad ...

Charity Vogel, 2013

AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War

Before the Westinghouse brake, it took nearly a mile to stop a fully loaded passenger train going only ten miles per hour. With the Westinghouse brake, a train traveling thirty miles per hour could be halted in just five hundred feet. Trains could ...

Tom McNichol, 2011

American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Stories of the People ...

To stop a train, it typically took a large crew of burly brakemen to manipulate the heavy brake shoes then in use, but during this demonstration, a single engineer activated the Westinghouse brake and the onrushing train ground to a halt only ...

Larry SCHWEIKART Ph.D., Lynne PIERSON DOTI Ph.D., 2009

Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Tlie Westinghouse Brake on the Gotthard Railway. By A. Beutschinger. ( Schweizerische Bauzeitung, 1888, p. 145.) Since the end of March 1888, the introduction of the Westing- house brake on the Gotthard Eailway has been definitely ...

Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), 1888

Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and ...

Because the vacuum had to be created to stop the train whereas the air was already under pressure with the Westinghouse brake, the latter could stop a train more quickly. While the air brake might yield pressures of 70 psi, the vacuum brake ...

Mark Aldrich, 2008

Handbook for Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen

B.R. standard for coaching stock 165 73 Vacuum brake separate cylinder, C. Class 164 79 Vacuum brake separate cylinder, F. Class 166 30 Diagram of Westinghouse automatic brake 167 81 Westinghouse brake air compressor governor 168 ...

R.F. Harvey

Diplomat of the Americas: A Biography of William I. ...

5 Finally, in 1881, he persuaded a group of English collaborators to form the Westinghouse Brake Company, Ltd. Similar companies, each granted broad territorial rights, soon followed in Germany, France, and Russia. Later, as the market for ...

Harold F. Peterson, 1977