Some high mountain villages, such as Avoriaz ( in France ) Wengen and Zermatt ( in Switzerland ) are accessible only by cable car or cog-rail trains, and are car free.

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.

* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.

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

In a modern car with a manual transmission the clutch is operated by the left-most pedal using a hydraulic or cable connection from the pedal to the clutch mechanism.

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

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.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

Other cable cars to use grips were those of the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which later became part of the San Francisco cable car system.

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.

For Dunedin, George Smith Duncan further developed the Hallidie model, introducing the pull curve and the slot brake ; the former was a way to pull cars through a curve, since Dunedin's curves were too sharp to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot to stop the car.

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.

* International: country code – 359 ; submarine cable provides connectivity to Ukraine and Russia ; a combination submarine cable and land fiber-optic system provides connectivity to Italy, Albania, and Macedonia ; satellite earth stations – 3 ( 1 Intersputnik in the Atlantic Ocean region, 2 Intelsat in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions ) ( 2007 )

Gibraltar was a landing point of the long-range submarine cable that from Porthcurno, in the United Kingdom ran to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, over land to the east coast of India, then on to Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia ( current Jakarta ), to finally reach Darwin, Australia.

:: international: satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals ; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria ; connection to international submarine cable FLAG ( Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe ); participant in MEDARABTEL ; international links total about 4, 000.

In 2009, SEACOM-the second undersea cable to land in South Africa-jointly owned and operated by Neotel-was switched on.

This was Melbourne's only non-MTOC cable tram, built by local land speculators and was operated as an independent line, feeding the Clifton Hill line.

In the science fiction novel Descent of Anansi, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, the main characters manage to land a damaged spacecraft on Earth with the aid of a very strong cable made of crystalline iron and the " force " generated by tidal effects.

* A cable pendant is one of a series of cables that is horizontally suspended across a flight deck of aircraft carriers for aircraft to land by catching with tailhook.

Several homes in Lewes Road were left without a telephone service for over one month whilst permission was sought to dig on private land to relay a cable.

During Torch, this unit cut the cable and net barrier across a river in North Africa, allowing Rangers to land upstream and capture an airfield.

All audio signals were sent via copper cable ( Post Office / BT land Lines ).

Kontek is remarkable because, in contrast to similar facilities like Baltic-Cable and Konti-Skan, all land sections of the 119-kilometer line on Falster, Sealand and Germany are implemented as underground cable.

A 53 kilometer land cable on Sealand follows, which ends at the static inverter station in Bjaeverskov.

For better monitoring of the oil, the land sections of the Kontek cable are divided in sections of approx.

92 kilometres of this cable are laid in the sea and 6 kilometres underground on land.

A landline telephone ( also known as land line, land-line, main line, and fixed-line ) refers to a phone which uses a solid medium telephone line such as a metal wire or fiber optic cable for transmission as distinguished from a mobile cellular line which uses radio waves for transmission.

During the Second World War, the club was forced to leave its ground as the adjacent BICC cable factory extended onto the land.

The cable is planned to transport 1600 MW of power from the Bakun Dam to Yong Peng, Johor via undersea HVDC power cables and then via land line onto the Malaysian National Grid.

A cable tram line down High Street to Clifton Hill was opened in 1886, faltered after the land market collapse of 1892, and opened and closed again until reopening permanently in 1901.

Both land parts in Denmark and in Norway uses overhead lines from the cable landing point to the converter stations.

The 300 million DKK Prysmian land cable on the Danish side is approximately, while the subsea cable and the Norwegian land cable is to be made by Nexans for 638 million DKK.

Coaxial cable brings the signal to the customer's building through a service drop, an overhead or underground cable.

If the subscriber's building does not have a cable service drop, the cable company will install one.

The cable company's portion of the wiring usually ends at a distribution box on the building exterior, and built-in cable usually distributes the signal through the walls to jacks in different rooms to which televisions are connected.

The city's major Projects include a Kabul cable car, connecting the city to Shirdarwaza mountain, a tunnel though mountains close to Kabul university to reduce traffic jams, building more flyovers in the city with the city's first fly-over being built with the help of Turkey ; in addition to providing more trucks and lorries for the municipality.

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.

* Plenum cable, electrical wire permitted in plenum spaces per building codes

Many small, startup firms gradually grew, and coverage increased ( coverage wars were frequent in the early period, with many cable boxes smashed, and new cable networks offering " half off for twice the channels " and immediately wiring the building for any willing persons ).

Very tall buildings, buildings with unusual or complicated shapes ( such as a tall building with a parabolic or a hyperbolic shape ), cable suspension bridges or cable stayed bridges are analyzed in specialized atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnels.

The jacks are connected by inside wiring to a drop wire which connects the building to a cable.

In building construction, electrical cable jacket material is a potential source of fuel for fires.

* Non-metallic sheathed cable ( or nonmetallic building wire, NM, NM-B )

This converts the high satellite microwave downlink frequencies to a lower frequency so it can be more easily sent through the coaxial cable feedline to the receiver inside the building.

For example, in satellite television receivers, converting the microwave downlink signal to a much lower intermediate frequency at the dish allows a relatively inexpensive coaxial cable to carry the signal to the rest of the receiver inside the building.

This IF is carried into the building to the television receiver on a coaxial cable.

The original lab building is home to a static display of historic communications equipment and offices ; the USA Network cable channel operated from this building in the late 1970s.

In a single receiver residential installation there is a single coaxial cable running from the receiver set-top box in the building to the LNB on the dish.

They are a loop of cable around a designated area, usually a room or a building, which generates a magnetic field picked up by a hearing aid.

It is the highest freefall () from a building without a cable or parachute.

A drop can also be a wire or cable from a pole or cable terminus to a building, in which case it may be referred to as a downlead.