* 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.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

The driver will pick up more passengers as long as seats are available, and will transport them to their destination based on first come first served rules.

Much of the ACC transport is carried in this front, which is defined as the latitude at which a subsurface salinity minimum or a thick layer of unstratified Subantarctic Mode Water first appears, allowed by temperature dominating density stratification.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

In contrast to small non-rigid blimps, giant rigid airships became the first aircraft to transport passengers and cargo over great distances.

At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

Another important use of aircraft came with the development of the helicopter, which first became heavily used during the Vietnam War, and still continues to be widely used today to transport and augment ground forces.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

The AMS was originally designed to leverage Technicolor's DVD manufacturing and distribution arm but when the first feature came to post production too late for reproduction Technicolor leveraged the AMS removable hard disk drives to the transport the files.

Mass movement is an important part of the erosional process, and is often the first stage in the breakdown and transport of weathered materials in mountainous areas.

It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard ( New York City ) and the western interior ( Great Lakes ) of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95 %.

During this first period, transportation was rather primitive ; it consisted of row boats, walking, and, in certain places, horse transport ( for the upper class ).

In 1855, physiologist Adolf Fick first reported his now-well-known laws governing the transport of mass through diffusive means.

Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.

This was expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit switched transport, then packet data transport via GPRS ( General Packet Radio Services ) and EDGE ( Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or EGPRS ).

In 1908, the first natural gas pipeline was constructed to transport gas from Caddo-Pine Island to Shreveport, Louisiana.

His first assignment is to transport the company men up-river to the company's innermost station, so that they can relieve its chief manager Kurtz, who has become very ill.

The first was ignored as a provocation, but the second, when confirmed by the Russo-German journalist and spy in Tokyo Richard Sorge, enabled Stalin to transport Siberian troops from the Far East in time for Georgy Zhukov to use them to save Moscow.

While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.

It is the first London transport authority since 1933 not to be commonly called London Transport.