Word: swanger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the cables inexplicably began to fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron...