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.

The elements of anchoring gear include the anchor, the cable ( also called a rode ), the method of attaching the two together, the method of attaching the cable to the ship, charts, and a method of learning the depth of the water.

Digital cable operators and internet providers also provide radio signals.

CUNY also has a cable TV service, CUNY TV ( channel 75 on Time Warner ) which airs tapes of freshman level survey telecourses, old and foreign films, and panel discussions in various languages.

There are also usually " upstream " channels on the cable, to send data from the customer box to the cable headend, for advanced features such as requesting pay-per-view shows, cable internet access, and cable telephone service.

In other regions they also had local cable companies.

There also exists a small number of analogue-only cable networks such as the Longford service Crossan Cable.

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.

There is also the obvious advantage that keeping the car gripped to the cable will also limit the downhill speed to that of the cable.

As a method of in-band signaling, DTMF tones were also used by cable television broadcasters to indicate the start and stop times of local commercial insertion points during station breaks for the benefit of cable companies.

DTMF tones are also used by some cable television networks and radio networks to signal the local cable company / network station to insert a local advertisement or station identification.

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

The cable will also connect to Moorea and the Leeward Islands of Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora.

Gibtelecom is also a partner in the EIG cable system, which will have a landing point in Gibraltar.

The site also links into undersea cable lines.

Some of the wells were hand-dug, but salt producers also learned to drill wells by percussion ( cable tool ) methods.

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.

A further fibre optic cable, known as BT-MT1 was laid in October 1990 between Millom in Cumbria and Douglas, a distance of.

Applications range from the use of large inductors in power supplies, which in conjunction with filter capacitors remove residual hums known as the mains hum or other fluctuations from the direct current output, to the small inductance of the ferrite bead or torus installed around a cable to prevent radio frequency interference from being transmitted down the wire.

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.

There are various method employed to " cast on ," such as the " thumb method " ( also known as " slingshot " or " long-tail " cast-ons ), where the stitches are created by a series of loops that will, when knitted, give a very loose edge ideal for " picking up stitches " and knitting a border ; the " double needle method " ( also known as " knit-on " or " cable cast-on "), whereby each loop placed on the needle is then " knitted on ," which produces a firmer edge ideal on its own as a border ; and many more.

Another form of analog copy protection, known as CGMS-A, is added by DVD players and digital cable / satellite boxes.

Two aerial tramway cars, known as gondolas, and numbered ' 1 ' and ' 2 ', operate in opposition on a cable, and a service is provided at roughly fifteen minute intervals throughout the day.

A diplomatic telegram, also known as a diplomatic cable, is the term given to a confidential communication between a diplomatic mission and the foreign ministry of its parent country.

As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel.

Certain types of cable car are also known as trams.

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.

Networks that consist entirely of home shopping or infomercials may instead pay the station or cable / satellite provider, which is known as brokered programming.

Also known as DSL over Unbundled Network Element, this unbundling of services allows a single subscriber to receive two separate services from two separate providers on one cable pair.

When a DS1 is transported over metallic outside plant cable, the signal travels over conditioned cable pairs known as a T1 span.

* The plesiochronous digital hierarchy ( PDH ) system, also known as the PCM system, for digital transmission of several telephone calls over the same four-wire copper cable ( T-carrier or E-carrier ) or fiber cable in the circuit switched digital telephone network

He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

This system of egg-shaped cable cars known to locals as " Les Bulles " provides the occupants with an excellent view over the Isère River.