- steel, also
known as
spring steel,
which replaced iron as the
material starting in 1834.
Piano wire has a very high
tensile strength to cope with the...
- A
wire is a flexible, round, bar of metal.
Wire is
commonly formed by
drawing the
metal through a hole in a die or draw plate.
Wire gauges come in various...
-
Initially wrought iron wires were used, but
today steel is the main
material used for
wire ropes. Historically,
wire rope
evolved from
wrought iron chains, which...
- A chain-link
fence (also
referred to as
wire netting,
wire-mesh fence, chain-
wire fence,
cyclone fence,
hurricane fence, or diamond-mesh fence) is a type...
-
Moving iron ammeters use a
piece of
iron which moves when
acted upon by the
electromagnetic force of a
fixed coil of
wire. The moving-
iron meter was...
- is
turned off. The
wire turns are
often wound around a
magnetic core made from a
ferromagnetic or
ferrimagnetic material such as
iron; the
magnetic core...
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Steel wool, also
known as
iron wool,
wire wool or
wire sponge, is a
bundle of very fine and
flexible sharp-edged
steel filaments. It was
described as a...
- also
known as the
Stubs Iron Wire Gauge or
Birmingham Wire Gauge. It is not the same as,
though similar to, the
Stubs Steel Wire Gauge.
Birmingham gauge...
- [ɡaˈrote ˈβil]) is a weapon,
usually a
handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf,
wire or
fishing line, used to
strangle a person. A
garrote can be made of different...
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American Wire Gauge (AWG) is a
logarithmic stepped standardized wire gauge system used
since 1857,
predominantly in
North America, for the
diameters of...