Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed · New York, Appleton · leaf 313
and is made by twisting yarns together left-handed. The Stevedore rope of the Link Belt Engineering Co. is a4-strand rope, manufactured from long-fibre manilla laid in tallow mixed withplumbago (to reduce the friction in the bending of the strands passing around Fig. 296 MACHINE DESIGN AND… … Fig. 658. For the strength of a rope, the assumption of Mr. C. W. Hunt is that arope one inch in diameter should have a working strain of 200 pounds at allspeeds. This is about one twentieth of the strength of the splice. This large
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