Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1889 — The Largest Cable. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Cable.

One of the most remarkable engineering feats appears to have l>een achieved in China, in the face of extraordinary physical difficulties — namely, the successful stretching of a steel-wire cable of seven strands across the river Lunann, this feat having been accomplished by the Danish engineer Delinde, assisted only by unskilled native labor. The cable extends between two points, at a distance of nearxy 4,700 feet apart, the height of the first support being about 450 feet above the present level of the river, and the second about 740 feet. The cable in question is said to, be the longest in the world, with a single exception—namely, the cable across the Kistna, measuring some 5,070 feet. There are also two cables across the Ganges of 2,900 and 2,830 feet, respectively.