Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats - by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.
Notes :- The song "Do Lafzon Ki Hai Dil Ki Kahaani" was shot on a moving Gondola in Grand Canal (Venice).
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The control system developed by Marconi is "fly by light" — using optical fibres to carry the control signals between gondola and the control surfaces.
A smaller ski area with one gondola cableway and 4 ski lifts is located at the entrance of the village of Reith im Alpbachtal.
Nose and dorsal turrets, each carrying a Lewis gun, completed the defensive armament, while the gondola also housed an internal bomb-bay.
It was an all-metal, twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, and armed with three flexible machine guns, one each in the nose, dorsal turret, and ventral gondola.
Cornel Lucas photographed many movies stars in the late forties and fifties including Marlene Dietrich, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Brigitte Bardot, Diana Dors (in a gondola in Venice).
Dryrock requires protection from the weather, and so is always shipped by rail using covered hopper and gondola cars.
The Baron Gondola, was carried along with the International Committee composed for the English ladies Miss Adeline Pauline Irby (*1831 +1911 Sarajevo) and Miss Priscilla Johnston (+1912 England) under M. Wesselitsky, for Herzegovin refugees peoples, the Baron Gondola wrote to the Times magazine, asking for further help for the refugees, his letter appeared on 12 April 1875.
Examples of a lift with three stops instead of the standard two are the Village Gondola and the Excalibur Gondolas at Whistler Blackcomb.
Ines, married Karlo v. Hreljanović in Zagreb, he was in charge in Agriculture School in Gruz, with the owner Baron Frano Gondola, since the years 1885 until 1900.
The sole Ju 88 E-0 was modified with several additional guns, another 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 firing rearward just below the turret, one firing forward through the nose, and the twinned 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 81Z machine guns in the integrated ventral Bola gondola firing rearward.
From Ehrwald to the Ehrwalder Alm (1,500 m), this section can also be covered using the gondola lift from Ehrwald.
In 1973, the company built its first Gondola in the United States at Big Sky Resort in Montana (removed in 2008).
Lenormand was succeeded by André-Jacques Garnerin who made the first parachute descent from high altitude (in a gondola detached from a balloon) with the help of a non-rigid parachute on October 22, 1797, and his wife Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse who made a similar descent two years later.
The museum hosts an exhibition about famous polar expeditions and displays many items, e.g. the balloon gondola from S.A. Andrée's fateful expedition and material from the John Phipps expedition to Svalbard around 1770, as well as several documents that refer to the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen.
It is reached by two modern cableways, a gondola from Gabiet above Gressoney-La-Trinité and a cable car from above Alagna, and is an important link for the Monterosa Ski area, which one of the largest in Italy.
The upper staircase built on the Elbe side in 1722 was supplemented in 1725 by water stairs forming a gondola dock, designed by the French architect Zacharias Longuelune.
Other notable areas of interest in Providencia include the Metropolitan Zoo, the Teleférico (an aerial gondola that transports people from the foot of Pedro de Valdivia Norte Street to the top of San Cristóbal Hill), several television networks and Radio Cooperativa.
In Gondola Days (1897), Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915) stated that the sandolo was "the only boat of really modern design, and this is rarely used as a fishing-boat".
To control temperature, the gondola was protected by special venetian blinds, but otherwise open to space.
A new 4 seater Doppelmayr chairlift has been installed, along with a 6 seater gondola.