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Engraving of the Westinghouse air brake, circa 1880.
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Drawing of air brake.

Credit: Courtesy of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

In 1869, George Westinghouse, then just twenty-three years old, patented the air brake that would save the lives and limbs of thousands of railroad workers and launch his career as one of the nation's most successful inventor-entrepreneurs.

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