As a child, I used to love watching Shirley Temple's movies and I was drawn to reading her autobiography, Child Star. This was one of the best Hollywood autobiographies I have ever read because of the way Shirley gave a complete overview of her life.
Definition of engineer's brake valve. : a valve in the cab of a locomotive for operating the air brake.
The valve is a simple variable-geometry device that controls the opening and closing of the specified flow window or valve curtain area as determined by the camshaft and rocker ratio. The valve curtain area is defined as the flow window created by the open valve at maximum valve lift.