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Air-cushions In Railway Cars

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Vice-President Schoonmaker of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railroad has k private car which is fltted up in a nove; manner. All its chair cushions and bed mattresses are constructed on the pneumatic principie. At night the seat cushions are emptied of air, folded and packed snugly away, and the larger cushions for the beds are brought out oL their place of concealment in the sides of the car, and pumped full. It Is said that these pneumatic cushions greatly reduce the jar of a railway journey, and that in time they may cause a revolution in the building of palace and sleeping cars.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat