Aerial or Wire Rope-Ways: Their Construction and Management, With One Hundred and Fifty-Five Illustrations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Some years ago the author wrote a book entitled "Aerial or Wire-Rope Tramways," which is now out of print. Since the publication of that work the term tramway used in relation to aerial lines has been found by manufacturers and others to be somewhat misleading, and these installations have become almost universally known as aerial or wire rope-ways. In consequence of this it has been deemed advisable in this new work to discard the term "Tramway" and substitute that of "Rope-Way" in order to conform with the present terminology.

The new book has been practically rewritten, and those portions of the original work used have been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. Considerable additions to the subject matter, together with a number of illustrations, have been made in the chapters devoted to Details of Construction, Electrically Driven Wire Rope-Ways, and that on Miscellaneous Information. A number of descriptions and illustrations of installations of lines on the different systems are given by way of example as in the former work.

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