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Excerpt from A Treatise Upon Cable or Rope Traction: As Applied to the Working of Street and Other Railways Revised and Enlarged
The modern tramway was first employed in the United States, at New York, as early as 1832. The system was, however, not success fully introduced or accepted until about 1852, from which date tramways were rapidly extended within the States to great advantage.
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