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  2. Gondola - Wikipedia

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    Gondola Races on the Grand Canal of Venice, by Grigory Gagarin (1830s) "Gondolinos, a slimmer and light-weight version of the gondola, were built for racing and elegant outings. Mark Twain visited Venice in the summer of 1867. He dedicated much of The Innocents Abroad, chapter 23, to describing the curiosity of urban life with gondolas and ...

  3. List of gondola lifts - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Europe subsection. 3.1 Albania. 3.2 Andorra. 3.3 Austria. ... Iran's Tochal gondola lift: The French (Poma) built gondolas that carry tourists and skiers to ...

  4. Poma - Wikipedia

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    The first Poma single-seater chairlift was built in 1955 in Chamonix, France, using parts from drag lifts, and the first 2-seater chairlifts were built in 1958 in France and the United States. 1966-67 brought the first detachable gondolas built by Poma. The prototype gondola by Poma was the La Daille gondola at Val D'Isere and installed in 1966 ...

  5. List of aerial tramways - Wikipedia

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    Iran's Tochal gondola lift: The French (Poma) built gondolas that carry ... Krossobanen in Tinn Municipality is the oldest aerial tramway in Northern Europe. It was ...

  6. Gondola lift - Wikipedia

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    Open-air gondolas can also come in a style similar to that of pulse gondolas, like the Village Gondola at Panorama Ski Resort, British Columbia. The first gondola built in the United States for a ski resort was at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. It was a two-person gondola built in 1957 and serviced skiers until 1999.

  7. List of funicular railways - Wikipedia

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    It was built in 1930s to ... (Russia is a transcontinental country spanning Europe and Asia. ... Schlossalmbahn (opened 1964, replaced by monocable gondola 2018 ...

  8. Aerial lift - Wikipedia

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    A gondola lift consists of a ... Because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, ... Many installations are built with two parallel, but ...

  9. Aerial tramway - Wikipedia

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    The first design of an aerial lift was by Croatian polymath Fausto Veranzio and the first operational aerial tram was built in 1644 by Adam Wybe in GdaƄsk, Poland. [4] It was moved by horses and used to move soil over the river to build defences. [5] It is called the first known cable lift in European history and precedes the invention of ...