1883, The Railway Engineer (volume 4, page 253)That for trains of more than 16 carriages the energy of the brakes at the beginning of the brakeage decreased rapidly beyond the sixteenth carriage, which led to the conclusion ... that the electromagnet employed did not yet present a sufficient resistance, ...
1985, Robert Thompson Sloss, The Book of the Automobile (page 210)... will begin to move slowly backward, reversing the motion of the motor, the compression of which affords some brakeage.
