. Les expositions de Westinghouse Companies au Congrès International des chemins de fer, Washington, il y a cent cinq ans, ont joué un rôle si important dans l'avancement de la science ferroviaire, Et que l'univer-sally devienne si essentielle une caractéristique de l'équipement ferroviaire, les expositions complètes des dispositifs de sécurité ferroviaire de Westinghouse ont été d'un intérêt prééminent pour beaucoup de délégués au congrès. La Westinghouse Air BrakeCompany, organisée en 1869, a été la première des sociétés Westinghing-House, et a gagné une réputation élevée de produits Westinghouse dans le monde entier depuis longtemps

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. The Westinghouse Companies exhibits at the International Railway Congress, Washington, Nineteen hundred and five . ons ago, have played such an importantpart in the advancement of railway science, and have univer-sally become so essential a feature of railway equipment, thatthe comprehensive exhibits of Westinghouse railway safetyappliances were of pre-eminent interest to many of thedelegates to the congress. The Westinghouse Air BrakeCompany, organized in 1869, was the first of the Westing-house companies, and had earned a high reputation forWestinghouse products around the world long before theappearance of the first Westinghouse engine or generator. Itsmain works at Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, fifteen miles eastof the Pittsburg Union Station, have 3000 employees anda capacity of 1000 brake sets a day. Its chief operative exhibit at Washington wasthe famous Westinghouse instruction car, which has been used throughout the UnitedStates and Canada in the instruction of more than 200, 000 railroad employees. Completeoperative demonstrations of the various Westinghouse brake and train-signal systems for. THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANIES passenger and freight service were given in this car, on the tracks near the Monumentgrounds, by the companys regular instruction corps. In the Westinghouse pavilion, the display included sectional models of Westinghouse brake valves, governors, andcylinders, and of improved types of Westinghouse steam-driven air pumps for railwayand industrial service, and operative exhibits of the Westinghouse friction draft gear ;of a new Westinghouse device for the automatic coupling of the drawbar, brake, andelectrical connections between cars in electric traction service ; of the electric railwaybrakes and motor-driven air compressors of the Westinghouse Traction Brake Company, also manufactured at the Wilmerding plant of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company ;of the locomotive brake equipments and automatic slack adjusters of the American BrakeCompany ; and

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