Cordage
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An encyclopedic article on the cordage industry from the 1872 series Great Industries of the United States. It traces rope-making in America from colonial hemp cultivation and the early rope-walks of Boston, Philadelphia, and Kentucky through the adoption of steam power and new spinning machines. It describes the old hand-spinning process on the rope-walk and the modern factory sequence of scutching, lapping, drawing, spinning, tarring, and twisting strands into rope. It closes with American cordage exports and a short note on wire rope.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1872
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 4
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