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Materials
for making
cables
The sheer number and variety of materials available today would
astonish earlier generations of wire makers. The greater resistivity,
conductivity, and insulation values that we take for granted might
almost appear to them to have generated a different industry from
the one they knew. But they would recognise a few old friends —
ordinary high-quality materials — in the lineup.
And the advances in materials technology, as impressive as they
are, have not vacated an obligation from an earlier era. Whether
few or many, plain or exotic, the materials of wire making require
that a choice be made among them. Identifying the best material
for a given wire or cable application was always a job for the
professional. And it always will be.
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