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Riding the High Wire : Aerial Mine Tramways in the West /
Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
2001.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g 1. |t Andrew S. Hallidie and the Endless Wire Ropeway |g 7 -- |g 2. |t Bleichert's Double-Rope System |g 29 -- |g 3. |t Construction and Operation |g 47 -- |g 4. |t Great Western Tramways |g 65 -- |g 5. |t Decline, Obsolescence, and Preservation |g 91. |
| 520 | |a Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-nineteenth century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs such as Andrew S. Hallidie and Charles Huson to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and 1880s. | ||
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