Detonators

Edit this page (last edited July 20, 2005)
Front Page | Recent Changes | Title Index | User Preferences | Random Page | Help

Explosive devices carried on locomotives or trains for use in emergency situations where they are placed on the top of the running rail so that they explode to give a warning to the driver if a train runs over them. First appeared in 1841. Known in the US as torpedos?.

Front Page \| Recent Changes \| Title Index \| User Preferences \| Random Page \| Help
Edit this page \| View other revisions
Print this page \| View XML Find page by browsing, searching or an index Edited July 20, 2005 (diff)