telpher line
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]telpher line (plural telpher lines)
- (transport) An electrically-powered track and cable designed for conveying freight-filled vehicles.
- Synonym: telpher road
- 1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511:
- It must not be supposed that I look on the new telpher lines as likely to compete with railways or injure their traffic.
- 1905, Edwin James Houston, Electricity in Every-day Life:
- As a rule, telpher lines are of comparatively limited length. Originally, all telpher lines consisted of an elevated road, formed of a wire cable, on which vantages electrically propelled cars ran.
- 1912 March 1, “Electric Telpher Lines in Small Gas Works”, in Gas Age, volume 30, page 212:
- The question was finally decided by installing several new vertical retorts and an electric telpher line to replace manual charging and converying systems.