Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
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It is a two-part aileron that can be deflected as a unit to provide roll control, or split open to act as an air brake.
He was involved in key patent litigation during development of the telephone, the air brake, the steam turbine, the automobile, the airplane and the radio, as well as other electric appliances.
13 die near Kisumu, Kenya, after a passenger train rolls back because of air brake failure - 15 August 2000
By 1990, New York Air Brake had furnished $100 million worth of equipment for more than half of New York City's subway cars before NYAB's Transit Division was established as the Knorr Brake Company and moved to Westminster, Maryland.
WABCO Automotive Products or WABCO Holdings, Inc. - companies also created from the former Westinghouse Air Brake Company
WABCO Vehicle Control Systems - a part of the former Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Wabtec Corporation (derived from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.
In 1889, the air brake manufacturing facility was moved to Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, and the company's general office building was built there in 1890.