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A pantograph is a device that collects electric current from overhead lines for electric trains or trams . The term stems from the resemblance to pantograph devices for copying writing and drawings.
File:B-and-O electric.jpg Early 1895 flat pantograph on a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad electric engine File:Schynige Platte diamond pantograph.jpg The diamond-shaped pantograph of the Swiss cogwheel loco in Schynige Platte , built in 1911. File:StrassenbahnPantograph.jpg The (asymmetrical) 'Z'-shaped pantograph of the electrical pickup on the Berlin Straßenbahn . This pantograph is single-arm. File:Pant Vienna III.JPG Pantographs easily adapt to various heights of the overhead wires by partly folding. The tram line pictured here ran in Vienna . File:DPP 8464, 8465, 8571, Klárov, 2019 (01).jpg Symmetrical, diamond shaped pantographs on trams in Prague .
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