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  SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
rail rope by an endless hauling rope at an average speed of 4 to 6 m.
Telpherage.—A telpher ropeway or cableway may be defined as a ropeway or cableway worked and controlled electrically, only a rail rope being required besides the live rail or wire from which the electric current is taken.
Thus the telpher is a self-propelled electric carrier running on a mono-rail, which, according to the conditions, may be a steel rail or a steel cable.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIDE.html   (5308 words)

  
 1833 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Last Day of Pompeii was first exhibited in 1833.
1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Carl Friedrich Gauß und Wilhelm Weber constructed in Göttingen an electromagnetic telegraph
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1833   (486 words)

  
 NJ Transport Heritage Center - Book List
A panorama that transports the reader to a way of life lost to history as the canal people, on water and on land, weave tales enjoyable to all.
Covers the rail car era on the Erie; infant gas cars; maturity; post depression era; pre to postwar; end of the line; nostalgic memories; preface, table of contents, forward, introduction, rosters, and biblio.
The Tuckerton RR: A Chronicle of Transport to the NJ Seashore, by John Brinckmann.
www.njthc.org /booklist42002.htm   (8293 words)

  
 Timeline 1811-1820   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1814 Aug 13, Treaty of London-Netherland was signed to stop the transport of slaves.
By agreement Britain paid the Dutch £6 million in compensation for the Cape of Good Hope.
This made Congress realize the need for quick transportation and sparked the digging of the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal.
www.timelines.ws /1811_1820.HTML   (15142 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
1827 1828 1829 - 1830 - 1831 1832 1833
May 28 - US congress passes the Indian Removal Act
June 24 - Last person put on pillory in England - Peter Bossey, in addition to 6 months in prison and seven years of penal transportation to Australia
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/1830   (772 words)

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