. American engineer and railroad journal . It is calculated that 100,000 tons of orecan be carried on each of these cables before it becomes unfitfor service. In crossing wide ravines or rivers where one bankis lower than another, the aerial line is used exactly as the old-fashioned funicular railway works, the descending load beingused to haul up the ascending car. In the Alps, the Pyrenees,and in the bridging of deep river-beds, this is the simplest andcheapest form of transport known. In the Italian Alps a spanof 1,500 yds. is crossed without a support, and this gossa-mer transport is soon
. American engineer and railroad journal . It is calculated that 100,000 tons of orecan be carried on each of these cables before it becomes unfitfor service. In crossing wide ravines or rivers where one bankis lower than another, the aerial line is used exactly as the old-fashioned funicular railway works, the descending load beingused to haul up the ascending car. In the Alps, the Pyrenees,and in the bridging of deep river-beds, this is the simplest andcheapest form of transport known. In the Italian Alps a spanof 1,500 yds. is crossed without a support, and this gossa-mer transport is soon to be applied to distances of 2,000 usual means of drawing the load on level lines where it isnot carried by the force of gravity is to revolve the endlesscord by a drum worked by steam. But a recent and ingeniousinvention promises a further development of aerial lines. Thesteel rope is charged with an electric current, and the carsthemselves carry a motor which picks up its power as ittravels along the wire.—London oo aaoSo►J HHOit BB6< t» « 0-,O« H B a o B «!OPS M Dg 3 O o ►J H ta 15 O u HCOIdC3E-i
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