The Cable Car in America: A New Treatise Upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways - Hardcover

Hilton, George W.

 
9780804730518: The Cable Car in America: A New Treatise Upon Cable or Rope Traction as Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0804730512 ISBN 13: 9780804730518
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 1997

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Enriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American cable car, a widely touted form of urban transportation that operated in 29 cities across the United states. This once-promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hill of San Francisco.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

George W. Hilton is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of several books on U.S. transportation history.

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?No one before or since attempted such a complete history of the cable railway. It ranks very high in the area of U.S. transit history. ?John D. White, Curator Emeritus of Transportation History, Smithsonian Institution
?There was nothing comparable before this book s appearance, and there has been nothing since. ?Robert M. Vogel, National Museum of American History

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804730512
ISBN 13 
9780804730518
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
484
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