[Gutenberg 46376] • Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope

From the book: “Seven one-thousandths, three one-thousandths, one one-thousandth—one record after another was passed.

At last a wire was drawn that measured one four-thousandth of an inch in diameter—twelve times finer than the hair on your head.

The spider, so long counted a master workman, had been outdone.”