Excerpt from Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Vol. 87: With Other Selected and Abstracted Papers The advantage resulting was so obvious, and the urgency so great, that most of the companies saw it to be to their interest to apply some form or other of continuous brake to their passenger rolling-stock, notwithstanding the heavy cost which it entailed. This general recognition of its value may therefore be regarded as dating from 1875. Meantime the comfort of the travelling public had not been neglected, and it has been largely supplemented by the improve ments which have been effected in rolling-stock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.