"slidometer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1893 July, “Westing house Co. on the Karner Brake Trials”, in Locomotive Engineering, page 301:",
          "text": "The average shocks for the four stops were, by one slidometer, four-tenths of an inch and, by the other slidometer, five-tenths of an inch.",
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          "ref": "1910 May, Colonel B. W. Durd, “Stresses Developed by collisions of Freight Cars”, in The Official Railway Equipment Register, volume 25, number 6, page 48:",
          "text": "The ordinary slidometer results are misleading for the reason that the sliding mass in the testing instrument is not restricted to the path of the car .",
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          "text": "A dynamometer car and a slidometer were used for the purpose of obtaining records of shocks from buffs and jerks .",
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        "An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars caused by sudden stopping."
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          "ref": "2002, C. Simon L. Ommanney, History of Glacier Investigations in Canada, page J-55:",
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