{"id":4688,"date":"2025-04-13T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2025-04-13T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T15:11:07","slug":"april-13-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"April 13, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 13, 1869, George Westinghouse received U.S. Patent No. 88929 on a Steam Powered Brake:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png 532w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This system worked, although less than optimally because of the delay in operating the brakes at the back of the train.  Westinghouse patented the solution to this problem a few years later on March 5, 1872 (U.S. Patent No. 124405):<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.png 518w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-190x300.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, 1869, George Westinghouse received U.S. Patent No. 88929 on a Steam Powered Brake: This system worked, although less than optimally because of the delay in operating the brakes at the back of the train. Westinghouse patented the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}