telpherage

English

From telpher +‎ -age.

telpherage (countable and uncountable, plural telpherages)

An automated transportation system powered by electricity, especially a cable car used to transport minerals or other goods.
- 1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511:
  I am almost afraid to speak of the probable uses to which telpherage may be put.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1125:
  the coming of the snows is no longer the year's curse but its promise, awaited eagerly for its influx of moneyed seekers after wintertime recreation, when the shining strands of telpherage have subdued every mountainside, and all is festival and wholesome sport and eugenically chosen stock