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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.
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* In 1858, Cyrus West Field laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable ( it quickly failed ).
* In 1865 Brunel's ship the SS Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable.
* 1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
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.
After this second anchor is set, the scope on the first is taken up until the vessel is lying between the two anchors and the load is taken equally on each cable.
One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.
* 1858 – Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts.
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.
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.
* Cyrus West Field, American businessman who successfully laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable
The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.
“ NUVUE ”, the first cable television system, was set up in Baguio City spearheaded by American expatriate Russel Swartley in 1969.
In 2009, SkyCable became the first cable TV service provider in the Philippines to broadcast the UAAP Games in HDTV via the new SkyHD Cable TV service.
SuperVision is the first digital cable television in Mongolia and other CATVs are planning to launch digital cable television with CA systems.
The first new television channels launched for carriage on cable systems ( going live in March 1984 ) were Sky Channel, Screensport, Music Box and TEN-The Movie Channel.
In 1949, Broadcast Relay Service began negotiations for the implementation of what was to be the first large scale cable TV system in North America.
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.
In 1881 the Dunedin cable tramway system opened in Dunedin, New Zealand and became the first such system outside San Francisco.
This would have been the first cable car system in Europe, but the company decided against implementing it.
Other cable car systems were implemented in Europe, though, among which was the Glasgow District Subway, the first underground cable car system, in 1896.
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The first Hercule Poirot began with tram passengers and Belgian refugees.
In 1904, the tram system first got into service.
These included storms, the first tram, visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Hastings Marathon Race and the pier fire of 1917.
In 1872 the first horse railway was inaugurated, and from 1893 an electric tram was developed.
Recent infrastructural developments include the opening of the fast tram route ( Poznański Szybki Tramwaj, popularly Pestka ) in 1997, and Poznań's first motorway connection ( part of the A2 autostrada ) in 2003.
The first tram line in Seoul started operation between Seodaemun and Cheongnyangni in December 1898.
* 1860 – Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
The Wales | Welsh Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first passenger tram service
The very first tram was on the Swansea and Mumbles Railway in south Wales, UK ; it was horse-drawn at first, and later moved by steam and electric power.
In 1913, Tsaritsin's first tram line was built, and the city's first electric lights were installed in the city center.
The city walls were torn down between 1869 and 1889, efforts for a planned expansion of the city are evident as early as 1879, the first tram service started in 1888 and the city streets were illuminated with electric lamp posts in 1908.
The first electric tram line opened in 1889, but closed only a few years later in 1894.
Melbourne's first tram was a horse tram from Fairfield railway station to a real estate development in Thornbury, it opened on 20 December 1884, and was closed by 1890.
Melbourne ’ s first cable tram service on 11 November 1885
The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.
Construction began on its first tram line in 1909 with the first passenger service commencing in 30 May 1910.
The first tram line extension in over twenty years took place in 1978, along Burwood Highway.
The first commercial application of thermite was the welding of tram tracks in Essen, Germany, in 1899.
In Porto, a tram network, of three lines, began construction in 12 September 1895, the first in the Iberian Peninsula.
Trams have a long tradition in Brno, they first went to the streets in 1869, it was the first operation of horse-drawn tram in the current Czech Republic.
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I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.
They advanced in a line across the entrance hall to the stairway and up, with gingerly steps, towards the first landing.
Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.
We observe first that no line, l, can meet its image except at one of its intersections with Q.
To do this we must first show that every line which meets **zg in a point P meets its image at P.
The first possibility requires that there be a line through P which meets **zg in Af points ; ;
In the first case the fixed elements within each pencil are the multiple secant and the line joining the vertex, P, to the intersection of **zg and the plane of the pencil which does not lie on the multiple secant.
The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.
This reduces to the relationship: Af, where Af is the intercept at zero thickness of the extrapolation of the slope indicated in eqn. ( 1 ), Af is the thickness of the coating equivalent to the rounding off of the knife tip, Af is a straight line first approximation of this roundness, and the other symbols are equivalent to those of eqn. ( 1 ).
And while no one expects total democracy on the academic scene, the scholar will be particularly sensitive to a line between first and second class citizenship drawn on any basis other than that of academic rank or professional achievement.
Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.
At first they feed on the yolks of the eggs but as this source of nourishment declines they begin to rasp at the ciliated epithelial cells that line the oviduct.
The first line of defence in salamanders and frogs is the mucous secretion that they produce.
The axioms are referred to as " 4 + 1 " because for nearly two millennia the fifth ( parallel ) postulate (" through a point outside a line there is exactly one parallel ") was suspected of being derivable from the first four.
The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.
Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).
Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept.
Assuming no loss of time when moving a car from one station to another, the longest stage on the assembly line determines the throughput ( 20 minutes for the engine installation ) so a car can be produced every 20 minutes, once the first car taking 35 minutes has been produced.
Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".
The language of the poem is typically direct and concise and comprises short sentences-the first line is in fact a model of condensed meaning, comprising an exhortation (" Let's drink!
Exactly at the head of the gulf the great peak of the Cameroon, on a line of volcanic action continued by the islands to the south-west, has a height of, while Clarence Peak, in Fernando Po, the first of the line of islands, rises to over.
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