San Francisco Cable Car Museum
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Community - General |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | Cable Car Museum in San Francisco |
| Description: | Website with a virtual tour of the San Francisco Cable Car Museum, along with educational pages on how cable cars work, historical facts, images and related readings. "The cable car was born in San Francisco at four o'clock in the morning on August 2, 1873, when Andrew Smith Hallidie successfully tested the world's first cable car. Operated by the nonprofit "Friends of the Cable Car Museum" the Cable Car Museum provides not only an historical perspective of the importance of the cable car to San Francisco, but an insight into the daily operations of today's system." |
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| Keywords: | cable cars, San Francisco, mass transit, public transportation |
| Has Components |
The Anatomy of How Cable Cars Operate The Wire Rope Street Rrailways of San Francisco, California |
| Referenced By |
09-01-1873 First Cable Cars in San Francisco |
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| Use of Resource: | The cable car could make a good case study for a design class. The case could cover integrated design concepts, along with a history of technology in a societal context. |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Low |
| Version Info | |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/archive/index.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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