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Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope

John Kimberly Mumford

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Pennsylvania Canal’s boats up the Portage Railway, which Bertrand, one of Napoleon’s generals, had built to overcome the Pennsylvania ridges; or why, just as the bulk and clumsiness and inefficiency of the huge hemp cables were eating into his active mind, a casual paper from Germany should convey the fact that some fellow in Freiburg in Saxony—where wire drawing had birth—had made a strong rope by twisting wires together.

What man had done man could do. If there was a place to test the efficacy of wire rope with its increased strength and diminishing size, it was the Portage Railway. So the Saxonburg wheatfield was turned into a ropewalk. Ceres made way for Vulcan. The neighbors, as soon as material could be shipped in from the Falls of the Beaver River, where wire drawing was done, found themselves under young Roebling’s direction twisting wires, with rude appliances for torsion, into a fabric which had never bee. . . Read More

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- Carol - Jul 31, 2014

The parts of this book that were about the history of wire were actually pretty good. That being said, the bulk of the book was propaganda for the company that first started to produce wire here in the United States. And sure, it was a great company -- they were the ones that engineered and really p

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