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Excerpt from Results of Tests for Tensile Strength, Etc., Of Crucible Basic, and Galvanized Basic Steel Wire Ropes, and Basic Steel Wire Rods Table 1 contains tests made of wires drawn from a number (i soft Basic wire rod, gauge after gauge in succession down to and including number 16, and annealed after each drawing. Table 2 contains the tests of wires drawn from the same rod number 6, as before, but which were not annealed after each draw ing. The annexed diagram gives a graphic representation of the results of 92 tests, made upon rods which were drawn from a number 8 soft Basic wire rod. The wire was successively subjected to an increasing load, and the extension measured. All the samples sent for testing were from the ordering stock as manufactured by the company, and pains were taken to send only average pieces, none of which had been especially prepared for test ing except the number 6 Basic steel wire rods, thomas-gilchrist process, which had been drawn, as stated, as far as it was safe to draw one gauge in size at a time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.