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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.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1841   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
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 Timeline 1811-1820
He popularized the phrase "Go west, young man." Greeley, who began his journalism career at The New Yorker, founded The New York Tribune in 1841 with support from powerful political friends.
Under Greeley's direction, The Tribune took a strong stand against slavery, the South and slave owners in the years leading up to the Civil War.
This made Congress realize the need for quick transportation and sparked the digging of the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal.
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