Rope
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An encyclopedia article on rope from Rees's Cyclopedia (1819). It defines rope, strand, hawser-laid and cable-laid construction, and gives Desaguliers' experimental tables on the resistance of ropes bent round rollers, plus tables of rope length per hundredweight and cable weights by circumference. It also lists the named ropes used in ship rigging, the thread counts of cable-laid and hawser-laid rope, and the making of twice-laid cordage from old rigging.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
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