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ropeway [′rōp‚wā] (engineering) One or a pair of steel cables between several supporting towers which serve as tracks for transporting materials in mountainous areas or at sea. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The project would require the leveling of several small mountains, the filling of adjacent valleys and the construction of a suspended funicular ropeway to carry passengers across the channel to Chichijima--this in a latitude where typhoons are far from rare. His father, an aerial ropeway engineer, had been unemployed through most of the period 1929-1934. government also provided assistance in sectors such as roads, bridges, ropeways (the Hetuada-Kathmandu ropeway), and communications (telephone networks for the ropeways). |
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