Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway and Other Accidents: With Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System, a Book for Court Use, With Fifteen Plates, Two Superimposed Charts and Thirty-Six Illustrations It would be a difficult matter to estimate the amount of damages paid annually throughout the world by rail roads to claimants who present themselves with real or assumed injuries. Sums of thirty to forty thousand dol lars have been many times awarded by sympathetic juries, and one serious accident will often wreck a corporation. The trolley or street lines fare worse than the steam roads, for the reason that on the former it is impossible to safe guard passengers who often persist in getting off the car before it stops or in the wrong way, and because, to a cer tain degree, it is obliged to pick up or set down passen gers at places, most convenient for the latter. A steam road, on the contrary, stops only at fixed stations, its cars are enclosed, its lines are fenced off, and it has the right of way. 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.
Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents with Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Disasters of the World written by Peter W. B. Semmens and published by Haynes Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway DisasterSemmens
Download or read book On Railway and Other Injuries of the Nervous System written by John Eric Erichsen and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Wreck written by George Bibel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails
Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents with Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Reports on Railway Accidents in the United States written by U.S. Interstate commerce commission. Bureau of Safety and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents with Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Wrecks written by Edgar A. Haine and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book recounts the most serious railroad accidents worldwide from 1853 to the present time. Relevant specifics of these disasters have been researched and summary narratives written. The central purpose of this volume is to record the horrendous details surrounding railroad calamities and, more importantly, to investigate, analyze, and derive beneficial knowledge about wreck causes and deduce corrective courses of action, setting forth successful principles of accident prevention that might be useful and applicable in rail operations everywhere. The ultimate purpose therefore has been to determine universal railroad safety doctrines, the application of which will lessen the frequency and severity of future rail accidents and thereby reduce death tolls, passenger and employee injuries, and the attendant financial and material losses." "Covered herein in concise form are the accounts of 70 major rail disasters in the United States and 111 train catastrophes in various foreign countries. Included for quick reference are two tabulations showing pertinent particulars for all the railroad disasters treated in this volume. The reader, if he peruses this long list of wreck narratives, will acquire a unique understanding of the widespread incident of rail accidents and, perhaps, arrive at a personal judgment on how to best further the noble cause of accident prevention. Certainly, he will gain an eye-opening view of the dreadful scope of the long-term operational misfortunes that have plagued the mighty "Iron Horse."" "More than one hundred photographs taken at the scenes of the accidents illustrate this volume." "A substantial introduction elucidates the history of railroading in relation to death-dealing mishaps, operating safeguards, railroad personnel, the human factor, the grade crossing dilemma, rail unions and worker discipline, safety research efforts, code of railroad working rules, alcohol and drug problems, the Harriman safety awards, the legendary rail cabooses, and accident prevention guidelines." "The eleven-part appendix includes a historical/statistical review of safety on the United States railroads and reports on the horrendous Louisville & Nashville Railroad hazardous materials spillage at Crestview, Florida, on 8 April 1970. Also summarized are the rail accident prevention philosophies practiced on four foreign railway systems."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Railway Accidents Or Collisions Their Effects Upon the Brain and Spinal Cord and Other Portions of the Nervous System Reprinted with Additions from the Medical Mirror written by William CAMPS and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accident incident Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accident incident Bulletin written by United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Safety and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Railroad Accidents written by Charles Francis Adams and published by New York : Putnam [1879]. This book was released on 1879 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Accident and other stories written by Edward Upward and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary figure among the 'Auden generation' of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward continuted writing into his late nineties. This selection of his best short stories spans a literary career of almost eight decades, and was published to celebrate his centenary in 2003. Beginning in 1928 with the fantastical world of Mortmere in The Railway Accident, the stories continue through the era of political engagement in the Thirties to the reflective and poignant studies of old age that have underpinned his revival in the past decade. Together they represent a lifetime of achievement in modern literature.
Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents with Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System written by Hamilton Allan McLane 1848-1919 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Railway Accidents written by Great Britain. Ministry of Transport and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Rode the Rails written by Mark Aldrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output - shaped by labor markets and public policy - motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety."--BOOK JACKET.
