Rope-Making
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Article on rope-making from Rees's Cyclopaedia (vol. XXX), describing the manufacture of hemp cordage in a rope-walk. It covers spinning, warping, tarring and laying of yarn, strands, cables and hawsers, with rules on shrinkage, hardening and press weights. About half the pages are numbered tables giving threads per hook, yarn lengths, shrinking proportions, weights, labour costs, tapered ropes, bolt-rope and Navy contract cordage. It ends with notes on patent rope machinery (Chapman, Huddart) and short dictionary entries on rope and rope-yarn.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1819
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 19
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