Invented the mechanism to operate San Francisco's cable cars. Hallidie bought the franchise and plans for the first cable cars and then perfected the mechanism that would put it into operation. Los Angeles, Chicago, and Denver were among twenty-eight cities that eventually used Hallidie's technology. San Francisco's cable cars carry ten million passengers a year. The system became the only National Historical Landmark that moves.
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