sf_cablecar, Back in the late 1800s Andrew Hallidie came up with a crazy idea of a loop of steel rope that ran under the streets of San Francisco. He figured out how to pull horseless cars up and down the hills by using a giant pair of pliers in the cars to grip the moving cable. Those ridiculous cable cars have been climbing halfway to the stars since 1873.
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