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John Kimberly Mumford. Outspinning the Spider
Outspinning the Spider
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. WIRE AND MODERN LIFE
CHAPTER II. THE PIONEER
CHAPTER III. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
CHAPTER IV. WHERE WIRE IS MADE
CHAPTER V. WIRE ROPE—THE GIANT
CHAPTER VI. WORKING FOR UNCLE SAM
CHAPTER VII. A CITY BUILT OUT OF HAND
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John Kimberly Mumford
The Story of Wire and Wire Rope
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THE BEGINNING OF THE WIRE AGE
England and France, quick to see what the process meant, even to the slow commerce of those times, fussed away for another three hundred years, trying to perfect methods of wire drawing to the point of independence in the trade, but it was a stern chase. “Iron wire,” for all utility wire in the beginning was drawn from Swedish iron, was beginning to take up a share of the white man’s burden. Gold and silver and platinum and bronze were still favored in ornamental use, but for practical purposes iron refused to be displaced. Great Britain essayed in 1750 the making of wire from steel for musical purposes, but to 1769 Broadwood was still sticking to German iron and even in 1790 was still buying wire from Pohlman in Nuremberg. So Bavaria, where first the idea of drawing metal had been hatched, was still leading the world in its craft.
