1152 WIRE.ROPE 



TABLE I. 

 Round Wire Bopes, for inclined planes, mines, collieries, ships' staging rigging, 



Bound rope in pit-shafts must be worked to the same load as flat ropes. 



TABLE II. 

 Flat Wire Hopes, for pits, hoists, $c. $c. 



steam ploughing, and it may safely be said that steam ploughing would have remained 

 an impoEsible project without the steel wire-rope. The very great distances, often 

 reaching to 300 yards or more, to which the power is carried by means of the wire- 

 rope in steam ploughing, would seem to point to its application to other purposes in 

 which power is required to be transmitted to great distances. Many and varied are 



