Various methods of making the connexions between the large main cables and the subscribers are in use.
The jibs of transporters are often made to slide forward, or lift up, so as to be out of the way when not in use.
This system required two line wires, and, although a remarkably serviceable apparatus and in use for many years, is no longer employed.
Hughes's form was taken up by the French government in 1860, and is very largely in use not only in France but in all European countries, including Great Britain.
We can see also that, though several languages were in use in England during the time of Norman rule, yet England was not a land of many languages in the same sense in which Sicily was.