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Telpherage
Telpherage Tel"pher*age, n. (Elec.)
Specif., electric transportation of goods by means of
carriages suspended on overhead conductors, as of wire, the
power being conveyed to the motor carriage by the wires on
which it runs. Telpherage and telpher are sometimes applied
to such systems in which the motive power is not electricity.
Telpherage
Telpherage Tel"pher*age, n.
The conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
--Fleeming Jenkin.
Meaning of Telpherage from wikipedia
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technology has been
successfully adapted for
public transport purposes. The
telpherage concept was
first publicised in 1883 and
several experimental lines were...
- end of the station,
first by a
telpherage line, then by a tramway. The
Glynde telpherage line was
built by the
Telpherage Company and was
opened on Sa****ay...
- his versatility.
Known to the
world as the
inventor of the
cable car or
telpherage, he was an
electrician and
cable engineer, economist, lecturer, linguist...
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pneumatic tyre (John Boyd Dunlop),
telephone (Alexander
Graham Bell),
telpherage (Fleeming Jenkin), and
vacuum flask (Sir
James Dewar).
Other notable alumni...
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James Jardine,
civil engineer Fleeming Jenkin, engineer,
inventor of
telpherage Alexander Carnegie Kirk,
marine engineer Elijah McCoy, engineer, inventor...
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applied to the
first large scale telpherage system for the Sus****
Portland Cement Company at
Glynde in 1885. The
telpherage system, had
originally been tested...
