Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 446
27 There are at present (1879) but three instances where round ropes are in use in this country forhoisting from very deep levels. At the time they were introduced, flat ropes were looked upon withsuspicion, as they had not then been tested for any great depth. Coupled with this was the fact… … fully wound together in the round rope, while in the flat rope they are simply placed parallel andsecured to each other by cross-wires. This matter of the amount of dead weight hanging in theshaft was considered a very important one. In two of the three cases noted, the vertical shaftshad…
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