The Cable Car is patented in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1860, zoomable image

03/23/1858

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.

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Business/Industry

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Philadelphia, PA

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