telpher road

plural telpher roads

1. countableuncountableSynonym of telpher line.

   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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   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

   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

   Synonyms: telpher line