wire rope

Historical Examples of wire rope

• Is a man going to lay out dollars on dams and wire-rope slings when he knows that none of them will be any use to him?

  A Damaged Reputation

  Harold Bindloss

• Hitherto the wire-rope tramway has been usually adopted merely as presenting the lesser of two evils.

  Twentieth Century Inventions

  George Sutherland

• The wire-rope tramway has hitherto been used principally in connection with mines situated in very hilly localities.

  Twentieth Century Inventions

  George Sutherland

• A system of this kind can be worked electrically, the wire-rope being employed also for the conveyance of the current.

  Twentieth Century Inventions

  George Sutherland

• The superiority of a line with wire-rope cover to other descriptions of cable was illustrated in 1853.

  The Atlantic Telegraph

  William Howard Russell