Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.

Transmission is primary by fiberoptic or coax cable network ( DVB-C ) or copper telephone line ( xDSL ).

* Domestic: a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions ; the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay

With his opponents defeated, Captain Gould on Audacious used the spring on his cable to transfer fire to Spartiate, the next French ship in line.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

An anchor rode ( or anchor line ) usually consists of chain or cable or both.

In North America, Australia and Europe many cable operators have already introduced cable telephone service, which operates just like existing fixed line operators.

A San Francisco cable car system | San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line

The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the Hallidie Cable Car.

Another way is IPTV, that is receiving TV via Internet Protocol, relying on Digital Subscriber Line ( DSL ) or optical cable line.

Two-player multiplayer was also possible over a phone line by using a modem, or by linking two PCs with a null-modem cable.

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

** Land line: ERMC ( cable system ).

PPP is used over many types of physical networks including serial cable, phone line, trunk line, cellular telephone, specialized radio links, and fiber optic links such as SONET.

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.

A typical home or small office router showing the ADSL telephone line and Ethernet network cable connections

The signal source might be an Ethernet cable, a satellite dish, a coaxial cable ( see cable television ), a telephone line ( including DSL connections ), broadband over power lines ( BPL ), or even an ordinary VHF or UHF antenna.

Television channels specifically built to run on cable or satellite blur the line between TV station and TV network.

The main line international telephone service is provided by the SEA-ME-WE-3 submarine cable and by submarine fiber-optic cables in the Mediterranean and Black Seas that link Turkey with Italy, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Romania, and Russia.

The anchor cable would have been lost overboard, but Philip Staffe was on hand to sever it with his axe.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

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.

While deploying a heat-flow experiment that had burned up with the Lunar Module Aquarius on Apollo 13 and had been attempted without success on Apollo 15, a cable was inadvertently snapped after getting caught around Young's foot.

The Electron was able to save and load programs onto audio cassette via a supplied converter cable that connected it to any standard tape recorder that had the correct sockets.

Known as AppleNet, it was based on the seminal Xerox XNS protocol stack but running on a custom 1 Mbit / s coaxial cable system.

An elevated power cable from the mainland to Arapawa Island over Tory Channel was struck by an Air Albatross Cessna 402 commuter aircraft in 1985.

A single cable coming out of the 5200 plugged into the switch box and was used for both electricity and the television signal.

Co-op City was the first area in the Bronx, and the first in New York beyond Manhattan, to have its own cable television provider.

Later it was revealed by both prosecutors and the defendant as well, that Settle did not have cable TV and did not watch the show.

The third license was obtained by BVI Cable TV, a local cable television service.

The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

BBC Text originally launched on digital terrestrial services in 1999, and was later introduced on satellite and cable platforms.

On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.

BBC News 24 was originally available only to analogue cable television subscribers.

Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 ( which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free ) in preference to the commercial Sky News.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

The purpose of most of these codes was to save on cable costs.

The article was an expansion of a well-circulated top secret State Department cable called the X Article and became famous for setting forth the doctrine of containment.

An elevated cable car system, Metrocable, was added in 2004 to link some of Medellín's poorer mountainous neighborhoods with the Metro de Medellín.

The evidence was inconclusive, suggesting that an increased availability of OTT options is not having a negative impact on the availability or diversity of Canadian content, one of the key policy mandates of the CRTC, nor are there signs that there has been a significant decline of televisions subscriptions through cable or satellite.

In 1881 the Dunedin cable tramway system opened in Dunedin, New Zealand and became the first such system outside San Francisco.

For example, the Chicago City Railway, also designed by Eppelsheimer, opened in Chicago in 1882 and went on to become the largest and most profitable cable car system.

In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.

Melbourne's cable tram system opened in 1885, and expanded to one of the largest in the world, with of double track.

The MTOC's three lines fed their cable tram system — Victoria Bridge cable tram terminus to Kew ( Boorondara Cemetery ), opened in 1887 and closed in 1915 after its sale to Kew Council for conversion to a Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust electric line.

Hawthorn Bridge cable tram terminus to Auburn Road, via Burwood Road, Power Street and Riversdale Road, opened in 1890 and closed on 31 January 1916 after being sold to the Hawthorn Tramways Trust for conversion to electric traction.

The Zoo Line, from the Royal Parade cable line to Melbourne Zoological Gardens, opened on 10 March 1890 and closed in November 1923.

The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.

After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).

It was opened on June 9, 2003 and is the longest cable stayed bridge in Ireland.

The prevalence of cable television, increasing steadily since the first CATV transmitter opened in the city of Junín in 1965, is now the third-widest in the world, reaching at least 78 % of households.

A new cable car linking Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks opened 28 June 2012.

The cable stay suspension bridge which joins Chalcis to the mainland to the south was opened in 1993.

When the line opened the final passenger section from Edge Hill to Crown Street railway station was cable hauled as was the section down the Wapping Tunnel.

The cable was officially opened on August 16, 1858, when Queen Victoria sent President James Buchanan a message in Morse code.

In 1908, the first public cable car in the world opened at the foot of the Wetterhorn, but was closed 7 years later.

The widening of the road and the extension of the railway to Luzern ( 1964 ) considerably opened up the tourism catchment area of the station and, in 1967, the higher section of the Titlis cable car was opened.

Telenor Mobil established GSM coverage in 1995, and in 2004 the Svalbard Undersea Cable System opened, providing fiber optic cable connection to the mainland.

In November 2008 was opened a new Nexans cable mill.

The most serious common problem arose because of a design fault in the screen cable where tooling holes caused unnecessary stressing due to additional bending of the cable at this point each time the Psion Series 5 was opened or closed and eventually leading to failure of the cable, which caused a serious display malfunction and the appearance of vertical lines on the screen.