. The Santa Fe magazine . eroplanes. To the left is the immensethrong which crowded the free seats andstanding room. Just under the arm of the picture ofthe girl who is shown waving cheer andencouragement to the birdmen is shownthe Chicago Yacht Club building-, to theleft of which McCurdy, the Canadian,watched his biplane burn up followinghis hurtle into the strings of wires run- ning into the yacht club. In the rear ap-pears the flotilla of sail and motor boats,together with a number of steamers andthe gunboat Dubuque. The hydro-aero-plane each evening cavorted among thesecraft, rising gracef
. The Santa Fe magazine . eroplanes. To the left is the immensethrong which crowded the free seats andstanding room. Just under the arm of the picture ofthe girl who is shown waving cheer andencouragement to the birdmen is shownthe Chicago Yacht Club building-, to theleft of which McCurdy, the Canadian,watched his biplane burn up followinghis hurtle into the strings of wires run- ning into the yacht club. In the rear ap-pears the flotilla of sail and motor boats,together with a number of steamers andthe gunboat Dubuque. The hydro-aero-plane each evening cavorted among thesecraft, rising gracefully from the lake andthen a little later nestling back amongthe ripples of the water, much as would abird which is most contented in the shal-lows. The most notable record establishedwas that for altitude, by Beachey, whoattained a height of nearly twelve thou-sand feet. Other minor records werebroken, and altogether the meet was thebiggest and most interesting event pulledoff in Chicago since the time of theworlds CASA DEL DESIERTO, Photo by Gay Hamilton, Staff PhotographerTHE HARVEY HOUSE AT BARSTOW, CAL. 34 CONCEPTION, INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOP-MENT OF THE AIR BRAKE* By GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE T has been suggested to methat it would interest themembers of the AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engi-neers to have a short accountof the conception and development of theair brake, to form an authoritative state-ment for the records of the society, and,as I believe I am chiefly indebted to mywork in developing the air brake and in-troducing it upon railways for the hon-ors you have conferred upon me, I havepleasure in complying with such sugges-tion. My first idea of braking apparatus tobe applied to all the cars of a train cameto me in this way: A train upon whichI was a passenger between Shenectadyand Troy in 1866 was delayed severalhours due to a collision between twofreight trains. The loss of time and theinconvenience arising from it suggestedthat, if the engineers of those tr
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