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While wire rope tramways date back to the early part of this century, the cableway finds its birth practically in an inclined hoisting and conveying device invented about 1860, by Charles Shuman, and the device as he designed it at that time is still in extensive use in the slate quarries of Pennsylvania and Vermont.
While wire rope tramways date back to the early part of this century, the cableway finds its birth practically in an inclined hoisting and conveying device invented about 1860, by Charles Shuman, and the device as he designed it at that time is still in extensive use in the slate quarries of Pennsylvania and Vermont.
Cableways
Miller, Spencer (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 31 ; 397-414
2021-01-01
181894-01-01 pages
Article (Journal)
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