telpher road
noun1
Synonym of telpher line.
- Surely I am not too sanguine in expecting that great changes will be produced in agriculture by these new facilities for transport, coupled with the delivery of power at will from any point of the telpher road.1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511:
- Automatic electric roads for carrying light freight, called "telpher" roads, have been constructed in England.1889, Lawrence B. Fletcher, “Electric Railways and Electric Motors”, in American Illustrated Magazine, volume 28, page 379:
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- A telpher road in England, built at a cost of $ 6,000, was found equal to the transportation of freight at six cents per ton.1900, The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge, page 2495: