Device for Twisting Wire Cables of Suspension Bridges.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved cable twister. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the casting having grooves and openings therein, of the semicircular disks . . . having grooves therein and openings extending through the same, the bolt for binding the several parts together, and the arms extending out from the disks" (lines 1-7).
Date:
June 11, 1889
Creator:
Runyon, Edwin Elijah
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department