telpher

& a. [TELPHERAGE.] A. As substantive : Elect.: The plant and rolling-stock of any system of telpherage (q. v.). The word was formed by the late Prof. F. Jenkin; but the example quoted under TELPHERAGE is the sole instance in which he used it as a substantive in the paper he read before the Society of Arts. B. As adj .: Of or belonging to telpherage; moved or moving automatically by the aid of electricity. telpher-line, s . purpose of illustrating to the eye the real and apparent movements of the earth; exhibiting the ellipticity of the earth's orbit; the position of the sun, represented by a lamp in one of the foci of of telpherage. The first line was opened at Elect.: A line on which transport is automatically effected by the aid of electricity; an electric railway; spec if., a line worked by Prof. Jenkin's Glynde, England, Oct. 17, 1885, for the New haven that ellipse; the inclination of the pole to the plane of the ecliptic, and the constancy of the pole Cement Company. It is a double line, nearly a mile during the entire yearly revolution; the apparent long, composed of two sets of steel rails ( a , a ), sup movement through the constellations of the zodiac; ported on wooden T-shaped posts, about eighteen the phenomena of eclipses, day and night, sunrise feet high. A wire is supported on each end of the and sunset, and the seasons; the varying dec lin acro -piece of the T, which is eight feet long. The tion of the sun; the equation of time; the motions carriers, or skeps (b), are of iron, and hold about and phases of the moon; and affording a model two hundred where on to illustrate the theory of the tides, lunar IMG:content-0883.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic] Min.: A mineral found as an earthy incrustation, by these han or in small spherical ma es with radiated struct ure, on the native tellurium of Transylvania. succe ively Composition: The same as tellurous acid (q. v.). těl-lür-1-ŭm, s . (TELLURION.] 1. Chem.: Symb. Te, At. Wt. 128. An element of rare occurrence, found in a few minerals, in a ociation with gold, silver, and bismuth. It po e es many of the characters of a metal, but bears so close a resemblance to selenium in its chemical properties that it is generally placed in the sulphur group. It has the color and luster of silver, is very IMG:content-0884.jpg:[blocks in formation] Telpher-line. with a wooden arm standing out from the post where it is desired that the skeps should be emptied. Ten of these carriers, which are in electrical connection with each other, form a train, and in the middle of the train is an electric sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. telpherage motor (d). About half-a-mile from the starting point is the engine-house containing the dynamos, whence the current is led to the line, and so to the motor in the center of the train. A speed of four to five miles an hour is attained, and the working cost is about 5 cents per ton, the skeps being empty on the return journey. The great practical advantage of a telpher-line is that it can be carried through a district without any interference with the fields, rivers, or roads, that cutting and tunneling are not nece ary, and that no ground has to be purchased, as for ordinary railways and tramways.