单词 | mono-cable |
释义 | mono-cablen. An aerial ropeway in which a single loop of cable or rope is used to support and move loads. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle travelling on or by cable > [noun] > cableway or cable railway rope-way1665 aerial railway1839 rope railway1849 tramway1872 funicular railway1874 suspension-railway1875 cable-road1882 telpher line1884 cable-railroad1887 cable-railway1887 cable tramway1887 funiculaire1888 funicular1888 cable-way1899 aerial tramway1904 blondin1906 teleferic1916 mono-cable1922 téléphérique1922 Seilbahn1963 1922 Grantham Jrnl. 28 Jan. 4/5 He opened with a review of the ingenious patents..brought out, to the great advancement of conveying material by means of the Monocable system, in which only one rope is used, to both take the load and transport it. 1926 H. Blyth Mod. Telpherage & Ropeways xiii. 111 The mono-cable system has been developed very extensively in this country, and although formerly considered as being suitable only for light duty and small gradients, has now proved to be quite suitable for capacities up to 150 tons per hour and gradients of 1 in 2½. 1958 I. C. F. Statham Coal Mining Pract. II. vii. 509 The Mono-Cable is the oldest and simplest, being first used in Dantzig in 1644. 1973 Gloss. Terms Materials Handling (B.S.I.) vii. 8 Mono-cable trestle, a structure supporting a mono-cable ropeway between the ropeway stations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1922 |
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