Telferage (Noun)
Meaning
A transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The telferage system was built in the late 1800s as a pioneering urban transportation solution.
- These telferage networks relied heavily on the construction of massive towers to support the cable pathways.
- Telferage systems were preferred for their efficiency in traversing steep hills that made other forms of transportation inconvenient.
- Although a telferage was built in 1884 in Angers, France, it only ran for about a year due to low ridership.
- The remnants of the telferage in San Francisco demonstrated how extensive this transportation network once had been.