telpher road

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Noun

telpher road (countable and uncountable, plural telpher roads)

  1. Synonym of telpher line
    • 1883, Fleming Jenkin, “On Telpherage”, in Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 29, page 511:
      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.
    • 1889, Lawrence B. Fletcher, “Electric Railways and Electric Motors”, in American Illustrated Magazine, volume 28, page 379:
      Automatic electric roads for carrying light freight, called "telpher" roads, have been constructed in England.
    • 1900, The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge, page 2495:
      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.