Illustration showing sectional view of a cable anchor, from the Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, designed and built by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), and his son Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926): opened 1883. Arrangement of 19 Strands, each of. 278 wires, which made up the main cables. 1880

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