In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail cars that are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.

The cable technology used in this elevated railway involved collar-equipped cables and claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome.

( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.

Jeeps were used for many purposes including cable laying, saw milling, as firefighting pumpers, field ambulances, tractors and, with suitable wheels, would even run on railway tracks.

The Intermodal System for Global Transport ( SIT Global ), involving Nicaraguan and Canadian and American investors, proposes a combined railway, oil pipeline, and fibre optic cable ; a competing group, the Inter-Ocean Canal of Nicaragua, proposes building a railway linking two ports on either coast.

On 29 November 1939 he sent out a cable regarding the " Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces ", describing details of the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which would be the basis on which those deportations were performed.

The Tube map is a schematic transit map representing the lines and stations of London's rapid transit railway systems, namely the London Underground ( commonly known as the Tube, hence the name ), the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground and the Emirates Air Line cable car.

It may include cars on rails or pulled up by a cable system ; a funicular or cable railway, such as the Johnstown Inclined Plane.

In a funicular or cable railway a railroad car is pulled up a steep inclined plane using cables.

* A railway semaphore signal is designed so that should the cable controlling the signal break, the arm returns to the " danger " position, preventing any trains passing the inoperative signal.

The VR tram was called a " Street Railway " and was built using the Victorian Railways broad gauge instead of the cable tramway standard gauge of, and connected it with the St Kilda railway station, to allow trams to be moved along the St Kilda railway line for servicing at Jolimont Yard.

A funicular, also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope ; the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalance each other.

The lower stations of both the rack railway and the cable car can be reached by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya train from Barcelona's Plaça d ' Espanya station.

Then, he built a cable railway near the Place de la Republique and created the Buttes-Chaumont Park.

It was planned as a cable hauled railway, but the advent of electric traction resulted in a simpler solution, and the change was made before the cable system was built.

A cable hat or remote hat uses a cable to allow hi-hat cymbals to be positioned independently of the pedal.

Unlike common serial ASCII terminals, the 3270 minimizes the number of I / O interrupts required by transferring large blocks of data known as data streams, and uses a high speed proprietary communications interface, using coaxial cable.

Romania uses PAL B / G for analogue cable and broadcast television, but see above.

Hanaro uses a mix of cable and DSL.

They are used in cable television and satellite television systems, as well as other uses.

: general assessment: modern system with total digital switching, uses fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay

Some riders prefer to ride finless, as some boards are specifically designed for cable parks or other uses, some uses of which can benefit from a finless design.

10BASE2 ( also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire ) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable ( RG-58A / U or similar, as opposed to the thicker RG-8 cable used in 10BASE5 networks ), terminated with BNC connectors.

A cable television system is an example of a carrier system that uses frequency-division multiplexing.

As a standard underlying medium it uses optical fiber, although it can use copper cable, in which case it may be referred to as CDDI ( Copper Distributed Data Interface ).

NASCAR uses transponders and cable loops placed at numerous points around the track to determine the lineup during a caution period.

A series of standard types of coaxial cable were specified for military uses, in the form " RG -#" or " RG -#/ U ".

The system uses standard Community Antenna Television ( CATV ) coaxial cable and microprocessor based Bus Interface Units ( BIUs ) to connect subscriber computers and terminals to the cable.

It runs on UTP data or optical fiber cable and uses CSMA / CD in a star wired bus topology, similar to 10BASE-T where all cables are attached to a hub.

The U < sub > k0 </ sub > interface uses one wire pair with echo cancellation for the long last mile cable between the telephone exchange and the network terminator.

Heli-logging, which uses heavy-lift helicopters to remove cut trees from forests by lifting them on cables attached to a helicopter, may be used when cable logging is not allowed for environmental reasons or when roads are lacking.

The Weather Channel uses special proprietary equipment that inserts local weather forecast and warning information if it is viewed on a cable TV system.

* Aerobus, a form of transport which uses a non-typical monorail system on a cable system similar to the one used by suspension bridges

An aerial tramway, cable car, ropeway ( Japanese ) or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

The term " broadcast network " is often used to distinguish networks that broadcast an over-the-air television signals that can be received using a tuner ( television ) inside a television set with a television antenna from so-called networks that are broadcast only via cable television ( cablecast ) or satellite television that uses a dish antenna.

Though far less common than pedal timpani, chain and cable drums still have practical uses.

The vessel is attached to the anchor by the rode, which is made of chain, cable, rope, or a combination of these.

A cable or rode is the rope, chain, or combination thereof used to connect the anchor to the vessel.

the chain ( or cord, cable, rope, string, etc.

The drive element of a pulley system can be a rope, cable, belt, or chain that runs over the pulley inside the groove.

A rope and pulley system, that is a block and tackle, is characterized by the use of a single continuous rope to transmit a tension force around one or more pulleys to lift or move a load — the rope may be a light line or a strong cable.

The Wire rope | steel cable of a coal mining | colliery headframe | winding tower

The term wire is also used more loosely to refer to a bundle of such strands, as in ' multistranded wire ', which is more correctly termed a wire rope in mechanics, or a cable in electricity.

A cable is most often two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly, but can also refer to a heavy strong rope.

* Wire rope ( wire cable )

The SkyJump did not qualify as the world's highest bungee as it is not strictly speaking a bungee jump, but instead what is referred to as a ' Decelerator-Descent ' jump, using a steel cable and decelerator system, rather than an elastic rope.

* Rope splicing, joining two pieces of rope or cable by weaving the strands of each into the other

It is suitable for both stranded and braided ropes, lines and cables ( 3-strand rope, 4-strand cable and 8-strand multiplait as well as concentric and braided constructions ).

Wire wrapping was used for splices and for finishing cable ends in suspension bridge wires and other wire rope rigging, usually with a smaller diameter wire wrapped around a larger wire or bundle of wires.

* A length of rope, cable, or chain when put to use ( such as a clothesline, anchor line )

An aerial tramway consists of one or two fixed cables ( called track cables ), one loop of cable ( called a haulage rope ), and two passenger cabins.

After hauling rope brake the lower car rolled back and slammed on the wall of lower station injuring people, the upper car rolled down generating higher speed ( brakes didn't work ), on reaching lower cable car support mast it slammed ona broken hauling rope which tore a cabin apart and caused people to fall from 20 meters of height onto rooftops and ground, 20 were killed and many injured after jumping from accelerating cabin.

The elements of the seal are contained within the pattern formed by the outer frame of a hawser rope or cable, and the inner frame of an anchor chain, of a type employed in ships of the Colonial era.

From the top, eight arms supported the vertical cable tracks of wire rope which lifted the baskets.

A large jetty in the harbour received ships from Jamaica and Australia, and their cargoes of bauxite and aluminium ores were transported on a cable belt rope driven conveyor belt that runs underneath the town to the plant.