Valuable Invention Pearsons Patent Railroad Car Safety Detaching Coupling This Coupling Is

$225 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

NY NY : Phair & Co., Steam Job Printers, 22 Beekman Street, nd 1850s, by the 1860s the printer was on Frankfort Street . Broadside 23 x 29.5 cm. Soiled and foxed. Laid down on stiff card stock. The invention was designed to allow for passenger cars to safely detach from the engine in the event the locomotive was thrown from the tracks. Item #66127

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