telpher

/tel-fer/US // ˈtɛl fər //UK // (ˈtɛlfə) //

望远镜,伸缩器,伸缩性,伸缩臂

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Also teleferic . a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.

adj.形容词 adjective

v.有主动词 verb

Telpher, tel′fėr, adj. pertaining to a system of telpherage.
By opening a switch the current is cut off from the corresponding section, and the telpher will stop when it reaches this point.
In capacity to handle material, one telpher was about equal to one derrick.
At the North Shaft steel-plate bins were used, and were supplied with material by the buckets handled by the telpher.
A telpher line on his system was subsequently erected at Glynde in Sussex.