Enormous Rope
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A short 1869 magazine article reprinting a Birmingham Daily Post report on an enormous wire and hemp rope made by John and Edwin Wright at Universe Works, Birmingham. The rope is about 11,000 yards long, 5.25 inches in circumference and over sixty tons, built of six strands of ten charcoal-iron wires around a hemp centre. It closes by comparing it with a 5,900-foot iron wire rope made by Roebling of Trenton, N.J., for planes on the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1869
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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