Show wire from a recently published estimate of the strength of the proposed wire shafta for steamships it appears that in this important the most satisfactory result is realized when made in five saoi eions with a total length of feet and 15 inches diameter the shaft will have stoel wires each 25 feet long with fastenings and as each wire and each fastening will sustain a load of coundi without rupture or injury there is thus exhibited a total inherent olf some pounds or an amount 2 times greater alian the continuous force of an engine of horse power which is indeed a significant showing new york sun |