Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Wire in Great Demand. [ARTICLE]

Wire in Great Demand.

Particularly for the transmission of high potential currents the steelaluminum. wire has been found most desirable aften ten years’ experience, during which time, it is stated, two alone are making use of 70,000,000 pounds of conductor of this character. The aluminum has great efficiency, together with lightness, while the steel imparts strength, so that it Is possible to maintain reasonably long spans, which is not so with the conductor made alone of aluminum. The simplest form of the steelaluminum cable is that to which six aluminum strands are laid around a central steel wire, all of the seven strands being of the same size. Larger areas usually have the single steel wire replaced by a seven-wire steel cable of the same area, the ratio of steel to aluminum being the same in both cases.