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railway air brake

fail-safe power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium
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railway air brake

Summary

railway air brake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (240 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • railway air brake is credited with the discovery of George Westinghouse[2].
  • railway air brake's image is recorded as Selbstentladewagen-Fccs-Axle.jpg[3].
  • compressed air is named after railway air brake[4].
  • railway air brake's subclass of is recorded as railway brake[5].
  • railway air brake's part of is recorded as rolling stock[6].
  • railway air brake's Commons category is recorded as Railway air brake[7].
  • +1869-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of railway air brake[8].
  • railway air brake's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01bb4n[9].
  • railway air brake's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • railway air brake's uses is recorded as compressed air[11].
  • railway air brake's sectional view is recorded as CFA.svg[12].
  • railway air brake's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as frein-westinghouse[13].
  • railway air brake's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as vozdushnyi-tormoz-vestingauza-81d6ca[14].
  • railway air brake's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 122848[15].

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Works and Contributions

railway air brake is credited with the discovery of George Westinghouse[2].

Why It Matters

railway air brake ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (240 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

George Westinghouse

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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