Details of device, developed by E. A. Sperry, which is being applied in practice by Sperry Rail Service Corp. of Chicago; detector, it is claimed, discovers not only fissures and other discontinuities in rails over which car passes, but also any chemical or metallurgical changes in metal; in addition apparatus is claimed to have definite advantageous effect on rails on which it is used. (See also Engineer vol. 147, no. 3826, May 10, 1929 pp. 522-523, 6 figs)


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    Title :

    The detection of flaws in rails


    Additional title:

    Engineering


    Published in:

    Engineering ; 127 , n 3298


    Publication date :

    1929


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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