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especially in a liberal democracy such as the United States

detailed history of an innovation that transformed American culture

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The Cable Car in America Clemens Umbricht Goldstein's is a portrait ofEnriched with almost 700 illustrations, this book has long been the definitive study of the American Cable Car, a widely touted form of urban transformation once operated in 29 cities across the United States. The once promising technology proved inefficient, however, and cable cars were soon replaced by electric trolley cars. Today, they are only to be found as a tourist attraction traversing the steep hills of San Francisco.