Locomotive Appliances

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Excerpt from Locomotive Appliances: Supplement to the Science of RailwaysIt is a rule of the train service that engines running after sunset, or when obscured by fog or other cause, must display a headlight. As the headlight, apart from its function as a train signal, is also a safety device, its purpose being to disclose to the engineer the track that lies before him, it follows that its light must be characterized by brilliancy and penetration. Naturally, therefore, electricity has been made use of, and successfully, so that many high speed passenger locomotives are now equipped with electric head lights, and a full and detailed description of the mechanism and operation of the Pyle - National Elec tric Headlight 18 here given.This headlight Is composed of three principal parts, the engine, the dynamo and the lamp Fig. 1 shows the general application of the whole to a locomotive, Fig. 2 shows the details of the engine and dynamo, and Figs. 3 and 4 show two styles 'of lamps.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.