Cable Car Heritage
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| Audience/Grade: | 6th Grade - College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Electrical Engineering History of Science and Technology Mechanical Engineering Technology and Society |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | Image |
| Author(s): | Cable Car Museum |
| Description: | "Andrew Smith Hallidie tested the first cable car at 4 o'clock in the morning, August 2nd, 1873, on Clay Street, in San Francisco. His idea for a steam engine powered - cable driven - rail system was conceived in 1869, after witnessing horses being whipped while they struggled on the wet cobblestones to pull a horsecar up Jackson Street. As the story goes, the horses slipped and were dragged to their death...Hallidie entered into a partnership to form the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which began construction of a cable line on Clay Street in May of 1873. " |
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| Keywords: | San Francisco Cable cars, cable cars |
| Referenced By |
09-01-1873 First Cable Cars in San Francisco |
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| Use of Resource: |
About the Cable Car Museum The Cable Car Museum was established in 1974. It is operated by the Friends of the Cable Car Museum as a nonprofit educational facility. http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/museum.html |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.cablecarmuseum.org/heritage.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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