The Cable Car is patented in Philadelphia

In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Eleazor A. Gardner patented the country's first cable car design. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 614.
    Date Certainty
    Exact
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    Business/Industry
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