What is the device on top of a tram called that allows the electricity to travel down to the motor?

Question

What is the device on top of a tram called that allows the electricity to travel down to the motor?

Answer 1

it;s called a pantograph

Answer 2

I've heard it called a pantograph (for the mechanical device used by artists to copy drawings,) and also a trapeze...  Depends on which country you are in.

Answer 3

It is called the pantograph.

Answer 4

"Pantograph" is the correct term for most electric trains that have a sizeable power collection structure.

Some trolley/tram units have a single "pole" with a contact at the end, in which case it would be a "trolley" or "trolley pole".

Answer 5

pantograph