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Show : MEW MILL ROLLS ROD AT 60 MPH Tlii r.w electronically controlled rod mill operated by American Steel & Wire, successors to America pioneer wlremakers, rolls rods at speeis up to 60 miles an hour. Rollins four rods at a wme. this continuous mill can produce upwards of 500 tons of wire rod In aa eleht-hour shift. This cmpares to the 15 tons production In 24 hours on the first rod mill operated by Ichabod Washburn, who established the nation's first successful wire drawing- mill In 1831. "asnoum. |