Lexicographical Neighbors of Cableways
Literary usage of Cableways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Earth and Rock Excavation: A Practical Treatise by Charles Prelini (1905)
"A large variety of cableways is found on the market, and since the ... According to
Mr. J. Pearce Roce, cableways can be broadly divided into two types. ..."
2. Handbook of Rock Excavation, Methods and Cost by Halbert Powers Gillette (1916)
"Co., at the Croton Falls Dam, put in two cableways 1434 ft. long, 2%-in. cables,
carrying 5 to 10-ton loads. The cost of one of these was $8000, ..."
3. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1911)
"Overhead cableways are particularly useful Use for moving logs and sawn lumber
from of inaccessible forest regions to drivable cableways. streams or to ..."
4. The Mechanical Handling of Material: Being a Treatise on the Handling of by George Frederick Zimmer (1905)
"ROPEWAYS AND AERIAL cableways, INCLUDING ROPEWAYS, cableways, AND APPLIANCES ...
cableways, which convey and hoist the material at the same time ; and 3. ..."
5. The Catskill Water Supply of New York City: History, Location, Sub-surface by Lazarus White (1913)
"The cableways proved to be invaluable for placing excavating machinery in the
gorge and delivering materials to the south bank, otherwise inaccessible. ..."
6. Selected Bibliography on Ports and Harbors and Their Administration, Laws by American Association of Port Authorities, William Joshua Barney (1916)
"10 p pl Aerial suspension cableways by JM Henderson. Pro inst civ engs 1903-04.
Vol 158 Pt 4 (brief reference to the use of cableways for coaling ships etc) ..."
7. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"... on cableways are from Chapter XIII oi Gillette's " Earthwork and Its Cost."
cableways properly include only those means of haulage wherein the load is ..."
8. The Mechanical Handling and Storing of Material; Being a Treatise on the by George Frederick Zimmer (1922)
"The classes of cableways mostly used are of three types; the simplest form being
the stationary cableway, having fixed towers at each end. ..."
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