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aerial cableway

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aerial cableway [′e·rē·əl ′kā·bəl‚wā]
(mechanical engineering)


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In Guatemala, banana plantation workers would hitch rides with banana baskets hooked to an aerial cableway - running along when the clearance was low, then leaping and soaring while hanging onto the baskets as they crossed roads and rivers.
Coray also conceived an aerial cableway to transport cement efficiently to the stonemasons--a monumental undertaking.
Ahead you'll pass an eerie sight: stubby, rusted pylons which once supported an aerial cableway whose buckets carried copper ore to the narrow gauge railway to Porthmadog.
 
 
 
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