Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1888 — An Anti-Collision Invention. [ARTICLE]

An Anti-Collision Invention.

A most wonderful invention is reported from Vienim. An Austrian engineer has, it is said, designed a truck to be run before every railway train, being maintained always at a fixed (but adjustable) distance in front by the force of an electric current transmitted along the metals from a dynamoson the engine. The current is conducted in glass tubes on the pilot truck. If, therefore, the truck comes into collision the tubes are broken and the contact necessarily destroyed. The interruption of the current instantly and automatically applies the brakes on the following train. It is claimed by the inventor that two expresses, fitted with this system, might with impunity'be set to run fuHstilt at each other. The collision of both pilot trucks would arrest, “file progress of both trains before they could meet.