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Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
Active cableway between the Vicat quarry in Sassenage and their plant in Saint-Égrève crossing over the A48 motorway west of Grenoble, France View along the Forsby-Köping limestone cableway, Sweden Etching of the world's first cable car, created by Adam Wybe in Gdańsk (etching by Willem Hondius) Material ropeway in Nußloch, Germany
The tail-rope system had its origins on cable-hauled surface inclines prior to the 1830s. [26] This was the dominant system in the 1880s [ 27 ] Frequently, one engine was used to work both ropes, with the tail rope reaching into the mine, around a pulley at the far end, and then out again.
The Cowlairs incline was an example of this, with a continuous rope used on this section from 1842 until 1908. The middle section of the Erkrath-Hochdahl Railway in Germany (1841–1926) had an inclined plane where trains were assisted by rope from a stationary engine and later a bank engine running on a second track.
Cable transport is a broad class of transport modes that have cables.They transport passengers and goods, often in vehicles called cable cars.The cable may be driven or passive, and items may be moved by pulling, sliding, sailing, or by drives within the object being moved on cableways.
The line originally used wooden rails and a hemp haulage rope and was operated by human or animal power, through a treadwheel. [9] The line still exists and remains operational, although in updated form. It may be the oldest operational railway. [10] Minecart shown in De Re Metallica (1556). The guide pin fits in a groove between two wooden planks.
The tensioned portion of the rope would fasten the ship to the quay, hoist a foresail, lift a spar into position on the mast or be used to transfer cargo to or from a dock or lighter. A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of sailors when hauling ropes, cables, and hawsers.
The towing source may be a motorized land vehicle, vessel, animal, or human, and the load being anything that can be pulled. These may be joined by a chain, rope, bar, hitch, three-point, fifth wheel, coupling, drawbar, integrated platform, or other means of keeping the objects together while in motion.