{"id":4541,"date":"2025-01-17T16:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:05:23","slug":"january-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4541","title":{"rendered":"January 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On January 17, 1871, Andrew Hallidie received U.S. Patent No. 110971 on an Endless Wire Ropeway that formed the basis for the San Francisco cable care system:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cable car service began in San Francisco on August 1, 1873, running a distance of 2,800 feet and rising 307 feet. Hallidie’s was not the first U.S. patent on a cable car, that honor goes to \u00a0Eleazer A. Gardner who received U.S. Patent No. 19,736, on March 23, 1858. Although second in time, Hallidie’s cable car was a financial success, and his patents, which were enforced on cable car promoters around the world and made him wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 17, 1871, Andrew Hallidie received U.S. Patent No. 110971 on an Endless Wire Ropeway that formed the basis for the San Francisco cable care system: Cable car service began in San Francisco on August 1, 1873, running a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4543,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}