Commercial quality "aircraft" grade cable and wire rope are mechanical devices consisting of multiple wires or strands, helically wound or laid about an axis. They are made from ferrous or non ...

The year that Glidden secured his barbed wire patent, 32 miles (51km) of wire were produced. Six years later, in 1880, the factory in De Kalb turned out 263,000 miles (423,000km) of wire, enough ...

THE PURCHASE ROPE SNAPS ASUNDER, RELEASING A GREAT STRAND--ITS TERRIFIC FLIGHT THROUGH THE AIR AND PLUNGE INTO THE RIVER--TWO "RIGGERS" KILLED AND TWO WOUNDED. Share full article June 15, 1878 ...